#Eden Genesis

[xboxissues]

New Xbox Games for August 5th to August 9th 2024

[hardcoregamer]

Review: Eden Genesis

While the writing is a little generic and the voice acting isn’t perfect, Eden Genesis still has a considerable amount of charm. Some voice acting is much better than the rest, so most characters' voices will be hit or miss. It's still fun to see the story unfold, but during some periods of the game, the writing can start to be a drag or might just not click for you. Eden Genesis is still a fun game to play and the gameplay loop is top-notch.

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[monsuta127]

Darksiders Genesis: Eden's Flowergirl

I started this back in June and picked it up again in October (im slow asf i know)

Can you tell where i started getting lazy?

This was based on an ask for @imagine-darksiders by @dorykitcat24

Hope you guys enjoyed it as much as i loved how War's face turned out at the end

[reesemh]

Genesis.

[imagine-darksiders]

Wait. The Eden's Heir gang's actual dynamic.

[illustratus]

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

by Giovanni di Paolo

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

"I wouldn't have eaten the forbidden fruit" yes you would have. Why? Because you do it everyday. Because every character in the bible does it (with a few exceptions) over and over and over again. The narrative uses different ways of talking about it, "taking the fruit", "getting bit by the snake", etc but the real point is that your absolute failure to read the bible as a narrative, and instead to insist on historicity as your primary way of reading scripture, is the root issue here because it causes you to be blind to the actual message of the Bible.

[cuties-in-codices]

adam, eve, and the serpent

miniature from a copy of "speculum humanae salvationis" (french translation by jean miélot), flanders, c. 1490-1510

source: Chantilly, Bibl. et Archives du Château, Ms. 139, fol. 3r

[artandthebible]

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Artist: Charles Joseph Natoire (French, 1700–1777)

Date: 1740

Medium: Oil on copper

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Painting Information

The history painter Natoire was trained in the studio of François Le Moyne, for whom this meticulously executed painting must have been intended as a tribute. It is a pendant to an earlier work by Le Moyne of the same size, also painted on copper, which depicts Adam receiving the forbidden fruit from Eve (private collection). Natoire shared with Le Moyne a predilection for the nude that here links biblical to more sensual subjects popular in eighteenth-century France. Note the rosy flesh of Natoire’s disappointed Eve, a tear glistening on her cheek, contrasted with Adam’s taut musculature.

Biblical Narrative

In Genesis 3:22 God says, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” Knowledge in itself is not wrong (see Luke 2:52), so what was so bad about man “knowing good and evil”?

It is vital to know the context of God’s statement. God had already told Adam not to eat from this tree. Adam was already aware that doing so was wrong, and he knew the consequences, yet he chose to join Eve in eating the fruit. When they ate, they were not simply aware of evil; they experienced evil, to the extent that they became evil - sinners by nature.

Man knew what was good: he was created in goodness and was surrounded by it (Genesis 1:31). He had been given everything God wanted him to have, including authority over all the rest of God’s creation. Adam had everything he needed for a fulfilling life. He did not need to “know” evil, especially when the only way for him to “know” it was to experience it. It should have been enough that God had warned Adam against disobedience. God did not want Adam and Eve to “know” evil in the sense of participating in it. The sin of Adam and Eve was not in attaining knowledge but in rejecting God’s will in favor of their own.

Because of their sin, Adam and Eve received dire consequences. First, Eve was told, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you” (Genesis 3:16).

Second, Adam was told, “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life” (Genesis 3:17).

Third, for both Adam and Eve, “You are dust, and to dust you will return” (Genesis 3:19). They had been told they would “die” if they ate from the tree (Genesis 2:17). This consequence did not happen immediately, but Adam and Eve did both physically die, a pattern followed by all other humans.

Fourth, they were expelled from the Garden of Eden: “So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken” (Genesis 3:23).

[7pleiades7]

Adam and Eve (1507), (detail), by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) , oil on wood panel, 208 x 91 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid

[vent-art-af]

“Adam - Version 2” (12-31-24) [supposed to be about the Adam & Eve Genesis narrative if that’s not painfully obvious lmao] <made with this>

“I remember wind in my nose The garden  The tree The tiger, bird, and butterfly We were happy, special, new, and  His She whispered to eat And we ate together Dad was like a storm Go He roared from the sky Leave I cried The sky is different here  I have a birthday And a baby and a child My name is dad If family eats from the tree  like candy With a gentle hand I will do something helpful & good Never answer with His wild roar And understand And understand.”

[lionofchaeronea]

Adam and Eve in Paradise (one of four panels), Jan Polack, ca. 1480

[tickety-boooo]

Aziraphale's Flaming Sword

I'm working on a poem about Aziraphale's flaming sword and it got me thinking all about it, so here are my thoughts and findings!

First is looks: the hilt is surprisingly plain. It's not the intricate, ornate sword you might expect; instead it's more primitive, or ancient, by design. The pommel is rounded, and the hand guard curves upward around the base of the blade, resembling a cup shape, rather than a crossguard in a straight line. Actually, it resembles the handle of a torch, which is interesting. Torches give off light and symbolize guidance and enlightenment. An appropriate weapon for our angel, I think! Aziraphale is given the sword to help him guard Eden against... what, exactly? I've never really stopped to consider what the danger is supposed to be. Could it be the animals that live outside of the garden? After Adam and Eve are cast out, they're seen fighting a lion with the sword, and in his dialogue with Crowley, Zira mentions "vicious animals". If it's the forces of Hell, then he's not doing a very good job of it, (poor angel~) letting Crowley snake his way in with the whole apple business! And since it's a sword made of fire, would that even hurt a demon? Is it holy fire? Do angels have holy water AND holy fire, and if so, do demons have a "hellwater" equivalent?!?!? These are the real questions I need answers to!! lol

I wonder if instead it's supposed to match up with what's written in the Bible. An angel with a flaming sword is sent to guard the Tree of Knowledge AFTER Adam and Eve are cast out, to prevent mankind from re-entering the garden. The angel was supposed to stop humanity from returning to paradise! I didn't know about this detail! In the show I assumed Aziraphale was always stationed there to protect Eden, even before Adam and Eve were cast out! Was this Aziraphale's actual job? Was he told to go to Eden and guard the gate after the original sin? If true, I think this would imply he had only been in the garden for a short time by the wall scene in s1ep1. And then it would make sense that he didn't try to stop Crowley from tempting Eve if he wasn't even there to see it happen originally. He's called in to work after everything already went down (like a lead balloon). But he has empathy and takes pity on the humans, and by giving away the sword he deviates from the Bible's story. I think the way this scene is cut and edited it feels like all of these events are happening immediately one after another, as it is meant to serve as a summary of Genesis (we all know the basic story) when most likely there were moments in between, like God speaking to Adam and Eve about why they're hiding their bodies and, potentially, Zira's arrival at the garden. We see in a different scene later that Zira is patching up the wall, and God asks him about the sword being missing. How is he to defend the garden against humanity's return without his sword?

Moving onnn... This scene is an origin story for how humanity harnessed fire!! And Aziraphale is the one who gave it to us, to protect ourselves and stay cozy warm and cook our food!!!! That is so cool and it completely fits with his character!! I love that the flaming sword in Aziraphale's hands is a symbol of protection and self-defense, life and survival.

And then because it's been given away, given to humans, (who now have the capacity for both good and bad after eating the apple) after thousands of years the sword ends up in the hands of the horseman WAR. That's her key item to summon her for the impending apocalypse. It now represents how humans have control over fire; they've created gunpowder and artillery and war and violence and Earth-ending destruction.

But WAR is defeated by Pepper, using the same sword that now holds this duality in meaning. Pepper, "Pippin Galadriel Moonchild", the child of a hippie mother, or in a way, a child of PEACE, defending her world, protecting the lives of everyone on Earth. Ahh it's such a satisfying narrative circle, I love it!!!!

That's all for now! I totally paused my poem work to write all this out, so back to it!!

[marshvlovestv]

Each MBTI Type as One of the Last 50 Games I Played (Part 5)

ENFJ: Saltsea Chronicles

ENFP: Slay the Princess

ENTJ: One Step from Eden

ENTP: Citizen Sleeper

ESFJ: Chants of Sennaar

ESFP: IMMORTALITY

ESTJ: Strange Horticulture

ESTP: Monster Prom

INFJ: Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

INFP: Cartomancy Anthology

INTJ: Master Spy

INTP: Genesis Noir

ISFJ: Promesa

ISFP: Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

ISTJ: Black Book

ISTP: Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

[arachnestwilight]

your mlp au is so cool!!! literally im in love! could I request a doodle w ibara/any information abt him? i love the design you made him

I'm so happy to hear that you like the AU!! <3

I need you to know that most of the canon-divergent changeling lore in this whole thing, came from me trying to figure out how to make changeling Ibara work. Subsequently, I have more ideas written down for this pink anime boy than I thought I would, when I started--I've never exactly been an expert in... anything that Eden and its members have going on. :P

He is very resistant to the idea of metamorphosis, under the assumption that he wouldn't be able to adequately protect himself with the lighter exoskeleton and dull teeth of metamorphosed changelings, but also that "someone of his nature" couldn't possibly have love to share, anyway. In the meantime, he hasn't felt hungry or had to feed on love at all in the past few years--almost like he's been unconsiously sharing love with the creatures around him, in spite of what he thinks himself capable or incapable of, or something.

Since he's related to the Godfather, he is actually part pony. Due to this, he doesn't have insect-like compound eyes, like other changelings do--his eyes are, instead, more pony-like... Please don't think too much about the anatomical workings of any of this, I just needed a reason why a changeling would need glasses. Because I apparently can't retcon the magic horse lore I completely made up and never posted anywhere.

I might scrible up a comic about this at some point, but when he first made up the disguise of "Rosethorn", he'd given himself a far less elaborate cutiemark--think a clipboard and quill, without the rose-like flourish/theme--in order to blend in with crowds easier. He only changed it after being pestered by Sunshine Weather and Marble Aether to pick something nicer for himself. And he somehow still thinks nopony has caught on to him being a changeling.

I hope this information on him is to your liking. :V

[imagine-darksiders]

War's comical negligence of personal boundaries.