At this time, somewhere in this period, there was a transfer of power in the Canaanite pantheon from the older gods to younger gods.
在那段时间的某个地方,迦南众神的权利由年老的神向年轻的神过渡。
At the end when Utnapishtim offers the sacrifice, the gods are famished and they crowd around the sacrifice like flies, the text says .
当Utnapishtim献上祭品时,众神一拥而上,像苍蝇一样围在供桌旁。
The middle class was extremely small in Prussia.
在普鲁士,中产阶级也是小众群体
But now I've had my fill of both and I can spend my later years, the twilight of my life, turning to the things about the gods, " performing sacrifices commanded by the gods."
但现在我已两者尽得,我可以在剩下的光阴,我的残年,转向服伺众神,执行众神所指示的祭典“
So in sum, Kaufman's argument is this: Israel conceived of the divine in an entirely new way. Israel's God differed from the pagan gods in his essential nature. The pagan gods were natural gods.
总而言之,考夫曼的观点就是:以色列从一种全新的角度,构想了神的世界,以色列的上帝与异教的众神,在本质上完全不同,异教的众神是自然的神。
So gods have power only insofar as they are connected with that primordial world "stuff," a technical term that I use throughout this lecture! That means that magic is possible in such a system.
因此,众神只有在和这个原始世界的“物质“,有联系时,才会有神力,整堂课上我都会用到,“物质“这个词,这就意味着奇幻的事有可能发生。
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。
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。
These gods include the sky god, El, I've listed here, the father of the various gods and humans.
其中包括天空之神El,我已把他列在这里,他是众神及人类之父。
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