There are lots of Ancient Near Eastern stories of ; Gods fashioning humans from clay; We have depictions of gods as potters at a potter's wheel just turning out lots of little humans.

也有很多古代近东故事,关于上帝用黏土造人;,我们看来上帝就像转盘旁边的陶艺工匠,造出许多小小的人类。

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So it's important to realize the role of ceramics; they need to make storage jars that could be sealed very well and preserve the stuff for a very long time, and indeed, they did that.

从中希腊人意识到陶艺的重要性,他们需要烧制可以密封得很好的,可以用来长久保存食物的陶罐,他们也的确这样做了

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