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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The portrait of humans that emerges is that Humans are unimportant menials. They are the slaves of the gods, The gods have little reciprocal interest in or concern for them, And they create human beings to do the work of running the world.

接着便出现了对于人类的描绘,人类是卑微的仆人，他们是上帝的奴隶，上帝与他们没有共同利益，也并不关心他们，他们创造了人类是为了让他们接下治世的苦活。

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