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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They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

以色列人选择新神，争战的事就临到城门。那时，以色列四万人中岂能见盾牌枪矛呢。

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For the gods have withheld from the barbarians the light of discretion, as that their poetry is not, like ours, full of choice apophthegms and useful maxims, but is all of love and war.

因为神灵没有赐给外邦人谨慎小心之光，他们的诗歌不像我们的诗歌那样充满精美的箴言和有用的格言，却全是讴歌爱情和战争的。

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The film combines the fear of aliens invading us (an old sci-fi trope) with a spectacular war of the gods.

NEWYORKER: X-Men

Its fiery colour and erratic movement across the night sky terrified the ancient Greeks and Romans, causing them to name the planet after their gods of war.

ECONOMIST: Martian chronicles

Agamemnon sacrifices his eldest daughter, Iphigenia, to the gods for victory in the Trojan War.

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