他为古代宗教经文谱曲，引起了很多人的兴趣。

He has attracted much interest by setting ancient religious texts to music.

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尼安德特人被认为曾惯于吃人。此外，遍布世界的诸多古代(甚至现代)文明都有过食人的历史，这或多或少发生在宗教仪式的情况下。

Cannibalism is believed to have been practised by the Neanderthals and, in a more or less ritualistic context, by many ancient (modern) human cultures the world over.

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在许多宗教学说中，意识跟古代灵魂(soul)的概念紧密联系在一起，这些学说认为灵魂是我们的精神本源，它不会消亡，甚至可能在你出生之前就已存在。

In many religions, consciousness is closely tied to the ancient notion of the soul, the idea that in each of us, there exists an immaterial essence that survives death and perhaps even predates birth.

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They participated at the very earliest stages in the wider religious and cultic culture of the Ancient Near East.

他们从最初就影响着,广泛古代近东地区的宗教信仰。

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And this is part of what ancient religion was like, is that people were not exclusive.

古代宗教的特点之一，就是人们并不排外。

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Well, like the rest of the ancient world, Israel had a cultic system, and that cultic system featured a sanctuary: a sacred space with holy objects; sacred objects, where priests performed a variety of ritual acts.

和其他古代世界一样，以色列有一个宗教系统，圣所是这个系统的一个特色：,它是一个布满了神圣物体的地方，祭司会在这里举行一系列的仪式。

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