What is so different? What's different about having one God, from having a pantheon of gods headed by a superior god?

二者差别这么大吗？只信奉一个神，与信奉由一个主神领导的诸神有什么不同？

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But if you push it too far you will anger the gods and something terrible will happen to you.

但是如果过分追名逐利,便会触怒诸神,灾难随即降临

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Pagan religions contain theogonies, birth of a god, "theogony", accounts of the births of gods. Now this impersonal primordial realm, Kaufman declares, contains the seeds of all beings.

异教有神谱，神族谱系，用来记载诸神的诞生的，考夫曼认为，这个可观存在的原始领域包含了万物的本源。

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He is warned by the gods through seers,and by men of wisdom saying, don't investigate this question too far; you might be making a mistake.

诸神通过先知向他发出警告,身边的智者也向他谏言,不要太过深究这个问题,否则将铸成大错

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They don't ask you to just be humble and throw yourself on the ground and consider yourself as nothing compared to the god,or the gods.

希腊人不要求你表现得很谦卑,也不会把你一脚踩在地上,认为你与上帝或诸神相比一无是处

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It is to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge because if human beings obtain knowledge, they will be like the gods,and that is unacceptable.

食用智慧树的果实,如果人类得到智慧,将与诸神无二,这当然是不能接受的

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At that point,the gods don't like it because like the Judeo-Christian god, they want to have some boundary between the two,but for them it's very important, because the boundary is far from clear.

这样的话,诸神自然不高兴,就像犹太-基督教中的神灵一样,诸神需要人神之间有一道界限,这对诸神而言是非常重要的,因为界限本身就是模糊不清的

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