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。

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Were they human beings or madman or gods ?

他们是人、是疯子、还是神？

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In between the patterns there are 111 monsters or gods.

纹路间穿插着111个怪兽或者神仙。

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They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay taxes or give as holy offerings to the gods.

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But in Homer the term is reserved for Agamemnon or for gods, but not for any other human being.

但《荷马史诗》中这个位置给了阿伽门农,或者是上帝,而不是其他人

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They always assume that if something like that happened, it was some god or gods who was angry with them.

他们一直认为这种悲剧,是因为触怒了某个神灵

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Even this latest tactic is better suited to the rumpled and rumbustious, brawling seaman or jealous gods, than this stiff and awkward man.

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Someone or something is using me to untangle the tangled plot over whose direction I have as little influence as the pen has over the poets who wield it, or man over the gods who manipulate him, or the knife over the murderer.

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Natural disasters and accidents, for example, are attributed to offended gods or to an enemy who has employed a witch to harness supernatural powers.

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