{"id":44585,"date":"2023-04-16T16:45:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T23:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=44585"},"modified":"2025-05-28T08:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:07:28","slug":"genesis-chapter-1-midjourney-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/genesis-chapter-1-midjourney-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Chapter 1: Midjourney Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some religious artistic motifs and scenes have been done to death while many have barely been touched. Since text-to-image came online I’ve been cogitating about its possibilities for creating religious artistic imagery at scale for every…single..event in the standard works. However, as I have mentioned before, what we have so far, while great in many ways, is not so great at understanding complex scenarios with multiple people. So far it’s primarily good at contexts that can be described simply. As sort of a pilot study I created a Midjourney Art Edition of Genesis Chapter 1. Here I draw inspiration from both my own vision of The Creation from a modern-day scientific perspective as well the perspective of ancient Hebrew cosmology (e.g. the dome covering the earth with an ocean on top of it), as well as some higher-order symbolism (e.g. Adam and Eve as an interracial couple to better represent the creation of all humankind). I use the King James text for its more poetic prose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Genesis I<\/h3>\n

In the <\/span>beginning<\/span> God<\/span> created<\/span> the <\/span>heaven<\/span> and the <\/span>earth<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The earth was without form, and void; and darkness <\/span>was<\/span><\/i> on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

And God said, \u201cLet there be light,\u201d and there was light.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

And God saw the light, that <\/span>it was<\/span><\/i> good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.\u00a0<\/span>So the evening and the morning were the first day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Then God said, \u201cLet there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.\u201d Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which <\/span>were<\/span><\/i> under the firmament from the waters which <\/span>were<\/span><\/i> above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Then God said, \u201cLet the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry <\/span>land <\/span><\/i>appear\u201d; and it was so. And God called the dry <\/span>land <\/span><\/i>Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that <\/span>it was<\/span><\/i> good.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Then God said, \u201cLet the earth bring forth grass, the herb <\/span>that<\/span><\/i> yields seed, <\/span>and<\/span><\/i> the fruit tree <\/span>that<\/span><\/i> yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed <\/span>is<\/span><\/i> in itself, on the earth\u201d; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb <\/span>that<\/span><\/i> yields seed according to its kind, and the tree <\/span>that<\/span><\/i> yields fruit, whose seed <\/span>is<\/span><\/i> in itself according to its kind. And God saw that <\/span>it was<\/span><\/i> good. So the evening and the morning were the third day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Then God said, \u201cLet there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth\u201d; and it was so. Then God made two great <\/span>lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. <\/span>He made<\/span><\/i> the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that <\/span>it was<\/span><\/i> good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

God said, \u201cLet the waters abound with an abundance of living <\/span>creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.\u201d So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that <\/span>it was<\/span><\/i> good. And God blessed them, saying, \u201cBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.\u201d So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Then God said, \u201cLet the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, <\/span>each<\/span><\/i> according to its kind\u201d; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that <\/span>it was<\/span><\/i> good.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Then God said, \u201cLet Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over <\/span>all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.\u201d So God created man in His <\/span>own<\/span><\/i> image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, \u201cBe fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

And God said, \u201cSee, I have given you every herb <\/span>that <\/span><\/i>yields seed which <\/span>is<\/span><\/i> on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which <\/span>there is<\/span><\/i>\u00a0life, <\/span>I have given<\/span><\/i> every green herb for food\u201d; and it was so.<\/span> Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed <\/span>it was<\/span><\/i> very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"


<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n



<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some religious artistic motifs and scenes have been done to death while many have barely been touched. Since text-to-image came online I’ve been cogitating about its possibilities for creating religious artistic imagery at scale for every…single..event in the standard works. However, as I have mentioned before, what we have so far, while great in many ways, is not so great at understanding complex scenarios with multiple people. So far it’s primarily good at contexts that can be described simply. As sort of a pilot study I created a Midjourney Art Edition of Genesis Chapter 1. Here I draw inspiration from both my own vision of The Creation from a modern-day scientific perspective as well the perspective of ancient Hebrew cosmology (e.g. the dome covering the earth with an ocean on top of it), as well as some higher-order symbolism (e.g. Adam and Eve as an interracial couple to better represent the creation of all humankind). I use the King James text for its more poetic prose.\u00a0 Genesis I In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10403,"featured_media":44588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,2906],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-images","category-old-testament"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/unnamed.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44585"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50191,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44585\/revisions\/50191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}