Why does he go against the traditional Ancient Near Eastern practice of primogeniture, inheritance by the first born?

为什么他要违背传统古代近东的惯例,也就是长子继承制，由第一个儿子继承？

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I thought I'd begin today-this is, by the way, the regular practice.

现在开始上课，顺便说一句，这是惯例。

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It's often fanciful; it relates imaginatively events which it claims Happened in historical time, not in a primordial realm before time, And a myth is designed to explain some kind of practice or ritual or custom or natural phenomenon.

它常常天马行空，关乎一些想象中的事件,它们发生在有历史记载的时期，不是在史前原始王国，所以杜撰故事一般都是来解释一些惯例,或者仪式和风俗或者自然现象。

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