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。

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God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade.

上帝坠落于天，狱火渐渐熄灭。

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"Then I realized, my God, the sky is full of these things," he says.

“随后我就意识到，我的上帝，天空满是这些东西，”他说。

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I speak in a figurative way about the relationship between the earth and the sky, and I believe that there's a sky god.

我用一种修辞法,来说天地关系，我相信有一个天神。

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We see this in the fact that the gods are very often ; associated with natural powerful forces, right? The sky is a god; the fire is a god; fertility--a natural process--is a god.

这一点可以在很多例子中得到证明，就比如说,神灵通常是和自然力量联系在一起的，对吧？有天空之神;,有火焰之神，有丰收之神，等等等等。

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They seem to be reaching toward the sky there, but not reaching toward the sky as in the cupola of a Baroque church where you're supposed to see God at the top.

而且这些建筑看上去都高耸入云,不过不像巴洛克式教堂高耸的塔楼那样,往顶上看时,你应该会看到雕刻着的上帝

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If the sky god is "angry" there will be thunder, heavy downpour, floods, etc.

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Their role was spiritual or supernatural -- to mediate between the cosmological forces: the sky, the earth and the world, each of which is represented by a god.

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