He argued that monotheism and polytheism are so radically distinct that one could not possibly have evolved from the other.

他认为一神论和多神论是截然不同的,不可能是一个由另一个进化而来。

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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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The noble families of Greece,and we see it already in Homer, typically claim descent from some god or other and ordinary people do not have that ability.

希腊的贵族家族,我们在荷马身上已看到了,典型地声称贵族权力由神祇所授予,并表示普通人没有那种能力

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Now it goes without saying that Milton has not been up to this point writing an allegorical poem. The creatures moving and speaking have been actual creations of the deity, with the strange exception of Medusa.

不用说，弥尔顿从未,写过寓言诗，这些移动着的说着话的生灵,是由神创造的，除了美杜莎这个奇怪的例外。

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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。

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And in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries this progression was viewed as an advance, which is not very surprising because the whole theory was put forward by scholars who were basically western monotheists.

在十八十九世纪，这个演变,被认为是一种进步，这并不奇怪,因为整个理论基本上都是由,西方一神论者提出的。

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