These stories, the stories we hear from earliest childhood on, shape us in some very meaningful sense for the rest of our lives.

这些故事，我们从小听到大的故事，形塑了一些我们一生,最有意义的观念。

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Mythologies are the lives or tales of the lives of gods, tales of the lives of the gods. In pagan religions the gods are born, and they live lives very similar to human lives but on a grand scale and then they die. They might be reborn too.

神话记载了众神的生活故事，众神的一生，在异教里，神是受孕而生的，他们群居，并且生活习惯和人类非常相似,他们也会死亡，也许还会重生。

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