=TOEFL长难句

题目

=TOEFL长难句
For example,some early societies ceased to consider certain rites essential to their well-being and abandoned them,nevertheless,they retained as parts of their oral tradition the myths that had grown up around the rites and admired them for their artistic qualities rather than for their religious usefulness.
我画的加粗部分是主谓么,整句怎么化简?

答案

early societies ceased to consider their well-being and abandoned them,nevertheless,they retained as parts of their oral tradition the myths