Nature also is not divine. It's demythologized, de-divinized, If that's a word; the created world is not divine, It is not the physical manifestation of various deities, an earth god, a water god and so on.

自然是没有神性的，它是没有神话色彩也没有神性的，如果可以这样说的话，被创造出来的世界并不神圣，它并不是众神实体的显形，是一个土地神或者水神或者诸如此类。

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So he decides to destroy the gods - and he is thwarted by a water god named Ea, an earth-water god- En sorry, he's a combination earth-water god--named Ea.

于是他便决定摧毁神灵,但他被一个叫做En的水神阻止，他是一个土神，不，水神-,对不起，他是水神和土神的合体，名叫。

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We have a younger storm god who usurps power from an older god by virtue of a victory over a water god. Remember Enuma Elish, which we read at the very beginning of the semester.

暴风之神从老神那里篡权,通过打败水神，记得Enuma，Elish吗？,开学的时候，在阅读中遇到过。

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There's the primeval fresh water, fresh water ocean, Apsu Which is identified with a male divine principle, a male god Apsu.

有原始的淡水，淡水海洋，它与男性神道有关，这个男性神灵叫做。

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God imposes order on the demythologized elements that he finds: Water, but it's just water.

上帝使他所见的无传奇色彩的事物秩序井然：,水，但它只是水流。

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