They'd just say, "Oh well,

他们只是说
we got to Egypt and we found out there are a whole lot more

我们到达了埃及发现有很多的神
gods than we knew about."

我们都不知道
Or they'd get to Syria, "Look at all these gods

他们到达叙利亚就说
that the Syrians worship.

看看这些叙利亚人崇拜的神
Well, we'll just add those into our pantheon of gods too."

我们也要在万神殿里增加这些神
And this is part of what ancient religion was like,

这就是古老宗教的某种特质
is that people were not exclusive.

不具排他性
You didn't have to worry.

你不必担心
Just because you worshiped one god doesn't mean you couldn't

因为你崇拜一个神并不意味着你不能
worship another god or several gods or five gods or a hundred gods.

崇拜其他的一个几个或上百个神
Gods knew that everybody was --

这些神理解人们的行为