Long after the fall of the ancient Egyptian civilization, doctors and alchemists in Europe continued the custom of showing a sign of the gods' help and protection.

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You can also hear Satan's critique of the tyranny of heaven in this account of the rhyme as well. Like kingship, rhyme is a custom.

在这关于押韵的一段话中也可隐约听到,撒旦对上帝独裁的批判，押韵同王权一样都是惯例。

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Well, Alexander just followed a custom that had been taught by philosophy and other kinds of things that, "Oh well, they worship Isis."

于是亚历山大,根据哲学及经验判断，“原来他们崇拜艾西斯“

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It's often fanciful; it relates imaginatively events which it claims Happened in historical time, not in a primordial realm before time, And a myth is designed to explain some kind of practice or ritual or custom or natural phenomenon.

它常常天马行空，关乎一些想象中的事件,它们发生在有历史记载的时期，不是在史前原始王国，所以杜撰故事一般都是来解释一些惯例,或者仪式和风俗或者自然现象。

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