在远古世界较成熟的社会中，宇宙的种种奥秘被认为就是众神存在的证据。

To the more sophisticated societies of the ancient world, cosmological mystery was proof that there were many gods.

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巴西国家队是唯一一支参加过所有历届世界杯决赛圈的球队，手捧过五次大力神杯，其次数位居众国之首。

It IS the only country to have played in the final stages of every football World Cup and it has won it five times, more than anybody else.

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看着太阳从空中骤然坠落，以及世界顿时陷入一片黑暗，奎托斯意识到，这并不是众神发出的指引。

Seeing the sun plummet through the sky and the world plunge into darkness, Kratos knew this was not a sign from the Gods.

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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 in sum, Kaufman's argument is this: Israel conceived of the divine in an entirely new way. Israel's God differed from the pagan gods in his essential nature. The pagan gods were natural gods.

总而言之，考夫曼的观点就是：以色列从一种全新的角度,构想了神的世界，以色列的上帝与异教的众神,在本质上完全不同，异教的众神是自然的神。

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So gods have power only insofar as they are connected with that primordial world "stuff," a technical term that I use throughout this lecture! That means that magic is possible in such a system.

因此，众神只有在和这个原始世界的“物质“,有联系时，才会有神力，整堂课上我都会用到,“物质“这个词，这就意味着奇幻的事有可能发生。

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