Why were the Babylonians obsessed with finding the secret to immortality/avoiding death? 1.The Babylonians wanted to break the chain of reincarnation enforced on them by the gods
2.The realm of the dead, Irkalla, was a terrible place of suffering that Babylonians feared going to
3.The realm of the dead, Irkalla, was under the earth; as a culture, Babylonians feared tunnels and caves
4.The Babylonians did not want to avoid death, but rather sought a way that they could move freely between the realm of the living and the land of the dead