The gods are terrified and they need a leader to lead them against her army and they turn to Marduk.

众神惶恐，他们需要一个率领他们的头领,与Tiamat的军队征战，他们向Marduk寻求帮助。

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And his answer is because the top god of our world, Marduk, appointed me in that place and I'm doing what he wants me to do, and if you cross me you cross him, and that's bad news.

马杜克:巴比伦城的守护神,我的所作所为受神明的指引,冒犯我就是冒犯神明,这可不是件好消息"

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In the Mesopotamian account, the gods themselves are created ; And they're not even created first, actually; The first generation of beings creates these odd demons and monsters, And gods only are created after several generations Marduk And the god of creation, Marduk, Is actually kind of a latecomer in the picture.

在美索不达米亚的描述中，众神本身也是被创造的,而事实上，他们还不是最先被创造出来的;,是最早的存在创造了那些恶魔和怪兽，而众神是在好几代之后才被创造的,而有创造能力的神是，他在创世的图景中是姗姗来迟的。

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And the sun has to trundle across the sky, and they're pretty unhappy about this and they want relief from working And laboring at their assigned stations and so Marduk accedes to this demand.

太阳则必须滚过天际，他们对此不快，他们也想在工作之余休息,在他们自己的居所里活动,于是，Marduk同意了这个请求。

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And a big banquet follows and Marduk is praised for all that he's accomplished, and his kingship is confirmed and Enuma Elish ends.

接着举办了盛宴，Marduk受到了赞美,为他所取得的一切成就，他建立了王权，Enuma，Elish也就结束了。

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It explains its rise to power and Marduk's rise from being a city god to being at the head of the pantheon of a large empire.

它解释了权力的崛起和Marduk作为城市守护神的兴起,他成了万神庙或者说是庞大王国的首领。

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And he follows that initial ordering by setting up celestial bodies, just as Marduk did.

他通过建立天体来遵循最初的宇宙秩序，就像Marduk所做的一样。

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Tiamat And the agreement is struck. And Marduk fells Tiamat in battle.

就这样达成了协议，Marduk在战争中挫败了。

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You build a world, and that's what Marduk did.

你应该用它来创造世界，Marduk正是这样做的。

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You have the young storm god, Marduk, who defeats Tiamat, the watery ferocious deep monster, and does so by blasting a wind into her and so establishes his claim to rule, instead of the old sky god, Anu.

年轻的暴风之神Marduk，凭借一阵狂风，打败了Tiamat-在深水凶猛的怪物,他取代了天空之神Anu，建立了自己的统治。

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Our story opens with a temporal clause: "When on high," "when God began creating"; We have a wind that sweeps over chaotic waters, Just like the wind of Marduk released into the face of Tiamat, And the Hebrew term is particularly fascinating.

我们的故事以时间状语开始：,“当在天国时““上帝开始创世“,我们读到了掠过恶水的气流，就像Marduk当Tiamat的面所释放的气流，希伯来语的说法尤其迷人。

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