Myths combine religious purposes with explanatory purposes and have been widely used in literature. The term was originally applied to books used in Christian religious services. A saga is a prose narrative written down between the 11th - 13th centuries in Norway and Iceland. A fable is a story in which animals or inanimate objects are given the mentality and speech of human beings to point out a moral. Fables are common in folklore and children's literature.
Fairy tales are magical stories that are usually folk tales in origin.
Babylonia is an empire in the lower Euphrates Valley of southwestern Asia. Its cities came to have their own individual guardian deities. Enlil Ur Sin Babylon - Capital of Babylonia in southern Mesopotamia. After Sargon's deportation of its inhabitants to Samaria, Samarians became known as Cutheans. It is now the village of Tell Abu Shahrain, Iraq.