Canaanite religious ritual took place in small temples that housed cultic statues. There were stone pillars, perhaps symbols of the gods, or memorials to the dead.

迦南的宗教仪式在小庙中进行,里面有宗教神像，有石柱，它们也许代表上帝也可能是祭奠死者。

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It's just built into the structure of the cosmos Because of the fact that all kinds of divine beings, Good and bad, are generated and locked in conflict.

它成了宇庙结构的一部分,因为各种各样的有神性之物，无论善恶，都出生且陷入冲突。

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So all signs of a cosmic battle, or some primordial act of violence between the forces of chaos And evil and the forces of cosmos and good are eliminated.

因此所有宇宙间战争的标志，或者原始的暴行,在混乱邪恶与宇庙美好力量之间的冲突都被消泯。

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It also serves a social and political function, because The portrait or picture of the universe or the world and its structure Corresponds to and legitimates the structure of Babylonian society.

它还有社会和政治功能,因为对宇庙或世界的描绘以及它的结构,与巴比伦社会的法律体系是一致的。

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He expressed his will that there be light, and there was light And that's very different from many Ancient Near Eastern cosmogonies in which there's always a sexual principal at work in creation.

他表达意愿希望有光，于是便有了光,这与古代近东的宇庙学解释有很大出入,在其中，创世过程中有性的因素。

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In fact, in the book of Judges, you will read of a temple to Israel's God, the God of the Covenant, and that temple is called the Temple to the God of the Covenant or Baal Berit.

事实上，《士师记》中，你会读到祭祀以色列神的庙，订立契约的上帝，这座庙叫做,契约之神庙或者太阳神巴力之约。

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Each year it's dramatized by the cycle of the seasons, And at a certain time of the year it seems that The forces of darkness and chaos are prevailing but each spring, Once again, cosmic order and life return.

每年这冲突都由季节的轮回戏剧性地体现出来，仿佛是每年都有一个时期,弥散着黑暗和混乱的势力，可是每当春天来临，宇庙的秩序又恢复了。

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In Enuma Elish, cosmic order is achieved only after a violent struggle with very hostile forces.

在Enuma，Elish中，宇庙秩序的获得,是在与敌方势力的激战之后。

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