They offered sacrifices to the gods.
他们向众神献上祭品。
Sacrifices were made to propitiate the gods.
人们供奉祭品以求神灵息怒。
The pharaohs, after all, were considered gods and therefore immortal.
法老毕竟被当作神，因而长生不死。
The Maya believed in many gods.
玛雅人信奉许多神。
This was all that remained of our former gods.
这是我们以前的神明留下的所有一切。
They worshipped the gods all the more after the incident.
事件发生后，他们更加崇拜神灵了。
Did all the gods of the olden times pass through the large saloons?
古代所有的神都是从那些大厅里走过的吗？
He decides to destroy the gods and he is thwarted by a water god named Ea.
他决定毁灭众神，却被一位名叫 Ea 的水神所挫败。
In some way, the elite had associated themselves with the power of the gods.
在某种程度上，精英们把自己与神的力量联系在一起。
Tiamat and Apsu are disturbed by the din and the tumult of these younger gods.
Tiamat和Apsu被这些年轻的神灵的喧嚣和骚动所打扰。
In Scandinavian mythology the rainbow was a bridge between the gods and the earth.
在斯堪的纳维亚神话中，彩虹是神与大地之间的桥梁。
Monks in orange robes offer flowers and food to the gods and produce haunting sounds on conch shells.
身穿橘袍的僧人向神灵献上鲜花和食物，并在海螺壳上发出萦绕不去的声音。
Gold was considered divine in ancient Greece and was used to adorn temples and as an offering to the gods.
在古希腊，黄金被认为是神圣的，被用来装饰庙宇和作为对神的祭品。
In the earliest version, the gods destroy the human race because its clamor had been so disturbing to them.
在最早的版本中，众神毁灭了人类，因为人类的喧闹声对他们来说太令人烦躁了。
In Greek mythology, it was associated with Iris, the goddess who brought messages from the gods on Mount Olympus.
在希腊神话中，它与艾丽斯女神有关，她从奥林匹斯山上的众神那里带来信息。
The dancers in these ceremonies wear masks, headdresses, and costumes that they believe are necessary to influence gods.
参加这些仪式的舞者戴着面具、头饰和服饰，他们认为这些是影响神的必要条件。
The rainbow is another ancient and universal symbol, often representing the connection between human beings and their gods.
彩虹是另一个古老而普遍的象征，通常代表人类和他们的神之间的联系。
Statues were created not for their decorative effect but to play a primary role in the cults of the gods, the king, and the dead.
人们不是为了装饰效果而创作了这些雕像，而是为了它们能在祭祀神灵、国王和逝者这一方面发挥主要作用。
They created figurines which were small statues and which depicted animals or gods or any shape that the clay could be moulded into.
他们创造出了塑像，也就是一些小雕像，描绘动物、神明或任何黏土能塑成的形状。
Milton intends to soar above the wheeling poles of the visible world and describe the otherwise invisible comings and goings of the gods.
弥尔顿想屹立于现实世界旋转的柱子之上，去描绘无形世界中神的来来往往。
Some scholars believe that Yahweh was originally a tribal deity—a god whom the Hebrews worshiped and considered superior to the pagan gods.
一些学者认为耶和华最初是一个部落神——希伯来人崇拜的神，并认为他比异教神更优越。
The myth also reminds us that these advances have come at a price: as a punishment for Prometheus' crime, the gods created Pandora, and they gave her a box filled with evils and curses.
这个神话也提醒我们，这些进步是有代价的：作为对普罗米修斯罪行的惩罚，众神创造了潘多拉，并给了她一个装满邪恶和诅咒的盒子。
In the program, I'm moving from cows to corn but I'm staying with the gods.
在节目里，我将把注意力从牛身上转移到玉米上，我与诸神同在。
What's different about having one God, from having a pantheon of gods headed by a superior god?
拥有一个神，和拥有一个由更卓越的神领导的万神殿有什么不同?
Like how Jupiter is the biggest planet and how Jupiter was the name of the King of the gods in Roman mythology, right?
就像木星是最大的行星而木星（朱庇特）又是罗马神话中众神之王的名字，对吧？
Nature and fertility would have been all-important; they would have worshipped sun gods, water gods, moon gods and doubtless bison gods.
自然和肥沃是最重要的；他们崇拜太阳神、水神、月亮神，无疑还有野牛神。
Wednesday derives from the ancient Norse king of the gods, Woden, and Thursday was originally Thor's day, in honour of Thor, the god of thunder.
星期三源自古挪威诸神之王沃登；星期四最初是雷神托尔的节日，是为了纪念雷神托尔。
Uruk, for instance, had two patron gods—Anu, the god of the sky and sovereign of all other gods, and Inanna, a goddess of love and war—and there were others, patrons of different cities.
例如，乌鲁克有两个守护神——阿努，天空之神，是所有其他神的主宰；伊娜娜，是爱与战争女神；还有其他不同城市的守护神。
So how does the brain conjure up gods?
那么，我们的大脑是如何造出神灵的呢？
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