Like Milton, Satan is in the business of demystifying power, of exposing political or cultural power as something that is not simply inherently there or naturally there.

正如弥尔顿一样，撒旦也是要揭开力量被神化的幻想，向人们揭露政治或文化力量并不是,与生俱来自然而然的存在的。

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He went around passing out rumors that his mother had actually been impregnated by the god Apollo, when he appeared as a snake in her bed.

他散布谣言说,阿波罗神化身为蛇，与他的母亲结合。

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Clearly this is a myth that Milton is identifying with very strongly here.

很明显弥尔顿与这神化产生了强烈的共鸣。

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So the world is sort of de-divinized. Demythologized.

因此世界不再被神化，没有了神话的色彩。

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Power is something - and this is what we learn from a reading of John Milton - power is something that is created by a human process of deification, a process of king-worship or a process of God-worship or book-worship or a process, for that matter, of poet-worship.

力量是,-通过阅读弥尔顿我们就会知道,力量就是人们崇拜外物，不断将其神化的产物，这可能是对国王，上帝，或书本的崇拜,或者，就此而言，对诗人的崇拜。

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