The heaven in this poem is so far from being the incorporeal - the spiritual heaven of orthodox Christianity that you have an image of an actual orgy, the festal orgy raging under the thyrsus .

这首诗所描绘的天堂与正统基督教所宣扬的,非物质的，精神的天堂是如此大相径庭,弥尔顿描绘了一副纵欲狂欢的场景,在神杖下纵欲狂欢。

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Who's holding this wand?

是谁执掌这神杖呢？

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In Greece, Zeus, who is associated with a storm, thunder - lightening bolts you think of in the hands of Zeus-- he replaces Kronos, who had been the head of the pantheon.

在希腊神话中，宙斯，通常和暴风联系起来,手中拿着雷霆杖-,取代了众神之神Kronos的地位。

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