with every season
English translation: over time/ as time passes
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| 4 +2 | over time/ as time passes |
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| 3 | defined sub-period of a longer time division. |
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7 hrs confidence: 
defined sub-period of a longer time division. Explanation: We are used, in Europe, for example, to the four 'seasons' as subdivisions of a year; but in other clims, there are for example only 2 seasons: the 'wet' season and the 'dry' season' — so in your instance of 'rains / lightning', this would seem to be referring to subdivisions of a year. I think also in the first instance, 'season that passes', they are probably talking about each half-year (since it seems as if the year here is divided into 2?) — in other words, really, with every year that passes, but seemingly even a bit faster than that! As for 'seasons' of life, I think here they are talking about 'years' — or possbily even of longer periods, subdivisions of the unspecified duration of a 'life' Note that 'seasons' can indeed be used to represent 'years' — two seasons' growth = the amount of growth on a tre etc. that has occurred during 2 growing seasons, of which there is one per year, so = years. Cf. also the now rather old-fashioned use of 'Spring' to talk about the years of a person's (or animal's) life. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2018-12-26 07:08:17 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Yes, so each incarnation is a 'season' in the sense of a subdivision of their whole life. |
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10 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2over time/ as time passes Explanation: My first impression is that it means the gods will gradually decline. It doesn't relate to the expressions from sports in this sentence. It is just a more literary way to say 'as increments of time pass'. And the time frame is given as a generation or two, so over that time the power of the so-called gods will decline. It doesn't refer to any specific season, just that as seasons pass, as time passes, the gods will be increasingly weaker. |
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