People regarded the various natural forces as imbued with divine power, as in some sense divinities themselves.

古人们把各种自然力量,都赋予了神的色彩，有时，对自己的认识也如此。

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Nature also is not divine. It's demythologized, de-divinized, If that's a word; the created world is not divine, It is not the physical manifestation of various deities, an earth god, a water god and so on.

自然是没有神性的，它是没有神话色彩也没有神性的，如果可以这样说的话，被创造出来的世界并不神圣，它并不是众神实体的显形，是一个土地神或者水神或者诸如此类。

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