Neon Genesis Evangelion Religious Links/Symbols??

I know there is a lotta of em, and they really sparked my intrest when i seen all the things series...so...i wanna know if you peeps have found anything else out...or something...i will share with what i have found out thus far, or think...
Lance of Longinus - its a real lance, that belonged to a Roman soldier, named longinus. He was sent with 2 others to go break Jesus' legs when he was on the cross, you know to make sure he cant support himself and die faster, but when they arrived at the cross, he was already dead. Longinus then pierced his side with his to prove he was, and when he did, blood and water poured out his side. Some got into Longinus' eyes and could see perfect (he was partially blind before). The lance then was eventually lost and then there is some stuff about St. Peter having some visions and finding later and then Hitler supposedly had this holy artifact ( he was big into collecting religious artifacts ). The lance today is said to be either in a pillar in some big major church in europe (cant remember the name), in a museum in itally (thats the one hitler had), or somewhere in britian. No one knows which one is the real one, and i thought the whole concept was rather interesting.

The Magi - (this is from my own assumptions) symbolizes how man is starting to rely too much on technology and how bad it could be if we do...i mean computers governing us...

some wierd things i started to think about then...if we found the real lance, wouldnt it have jesus' dna on it? and cant we clone things? i know it would be difficult, seeing how old it is, but it worked in jurassic park ...that sorta relates, man, if we essentially "clone" jesus, could start the apocolypse, as in the series...i think too much...

 

erm

yeah

right.. why would anyone want to clone a 2000 yeard dead carpenter?

clone someone useful, like the ***** of babylon.. now she knew how to have a good time

 

I've made my signature just for you mordeth

 

the magi

the magi - were the 3 kings who came to jesus when when he was born with some stuff that i cant remember.

The Dead sea Scrolls were a collection of scrolls found in a cave just by the dead sea (duh) which depict the apocolipse and some other stuff

the beam that auska gets hit with (the one that makes her nut's) the song that is in the background is the song the angels will sing when the apocolipse comes




see not just a pretty face.


P.s. has anybody seen the picture of the 12 winged angel (lucifer)

 

Marduk: Babylonian god of destruction.

End of Eva has many parts which are from the Book of Revelations and other books both theological and philosophical, such as the Kabbalah, Kierkergaard, and Sarte.

Also, SI2, that song in the background was Beethovens Ode to Joy.

Anyway.

If you reference the number of the angel to the corresponding angel in the book of Revelations, you tend to get some similarities.

Magi: The Wise Men who came bearing Gold, Frankensence and Mhyrr for Jesus.

As I literally just woke up, I'm a bit groggy and shall post more later.

 

well im sorry for not knowing what it was called

well im sorry for not knowing what it was called but i know that it will be the song that the angels play on harps when they come to destoy us

ok blessed boy!!!!!!

 

i forgot about that

i forgot about lilith. she was made as a copy of adam (odviasly except for being a woman) and because of this they were not compatable so adam told god that he didnt like her and god sent her to hell where sh became satans lapdog

(sorry for the bad spelling)

 

wipe clean

I'm Shinji Ikari 2's lap girl he he and i'm wipe clean:shy3:

 

Re: well im sorry for not knowing what it was called

Oooooooooooooooooookaaaaaaaay.

Settle down there.

 

theres a lot more stuff, they talk about it a lot in the commentary, i should go rewatch it then post some more ^_^

very intersting stuff here, i love learning about this stuff, thanks

and bloodberry, thats what i am saying, the clone would be the antichrist, and it is just freaky...i mean god created the beginning of man, and we always strive to be higher (imo), so with the creation it would be our way of "surpassing" him and would eventually be our destruction...

 

Lilith - In Jewish tradition, where she originated, Lilith is a female demon, enemy of infants, bride of the evil angel Sammael (Satan). She predated Eva, had marital relations with Adam, and must thus be regarded as his first wife. According to Rabbi Eliezer (The Book of Adam and Eve) Lilith bore Adam every day 100 children. The Zohar (Leviticus 19a) describes Lilith as "a hot fiery female who first cohabited with man" but, when Eve was created, "flew to the cities of mankind". She has been identified (incorrectly) with the screech owl in Isaiah 34:14. In the cabala she is the demon of Friday and is represented as a naked woman whose body terminates in a serpent's tail. While commonly regarded as the creation of the rabbis of the early Middle Ages (the first traceable mention of Lilith occurs in a 10th-century folktale called the Alphabet of Be Sira), Lilith is in fact drawn from the lili, female demonic spirits in Mesopotamian demonology, and known as ardat lili. The rabbis read :Lilith into Scripture as the 1st temptress, as Adam's demon wife, and as the mother of Cain.

In Talmudic lore, as also in the cabala, most demons are mortal, but Lilith and two other notorious female spirits of evil (Naamah and Agrat bat Mahlat) will "continue to exist and plague man until the Messianic day, when God will finally extirpate uncleanliness and evil from the face of the earth". In Scholem's article on one of the medieval writers in the magazine Mada'e ha Yahadut, Lilith and Sammael are said to have "emanated from beneath the throne of Divine Glory, the legs of which were somewhat shaken by their joint activity". It is known, of course, that Sammael (Satan) was once a familiar figure in Heaven, but not that Lilith was up there also, assisting him. Lilith went by a score of names, 17 of which she revealed to Elijah when she was forced to do so by the Old Testament prophect.

The 17 names of Lilith: Abeko, Abito, Amizo, Batna, Eilo, Ita, Izorpo, Kali, Kea, Kokos, Lilith, Odam, Partasah, Patrota, Podo, Satrina, Talto.

Excerpted from "A Dictionary of Angels" by Gustav Davidson.

 

Well...

"the first traceable mention of Lilith occurs in a 10th-century folktale called the Alphabet of Be Sira".

I don't know why she isnt in Genesis. Since Genesis started out in the spoken word, perhaps even if she *was* in there she was removed so as not to get side-tracked from the main story, that being Adam and Eve and their expulsion.

I really don't have any idea.

Edit: One source says that Lilith was created from the dirt just the same as Adam and thus equal, and thus not apt to taking any flack from him. However this doesnt seem right (I dont think Adam would be cruel or a 'men are better' sort given that he was essentially innocent and almost childlike in his intelligence). I've no way of verifying this bit about Lilith so im just tossing it out as a possible origin. It is interesting to note that some things do chance in the Old Testament depending on the translation. 'giants of the earth' in the story of Noah and the Arc is actually the Nephilim.

 

I was reading up and found......

http://www.ibiblio.org/hazine/Lilith1.html

It's interesting if it's true

Added to that, from reading elsewhere, I think i found that the Jews lived with lilith and eve for a while but that lilith kindof encouraged out of marriage sex and so she was gotten rid of!

 

If you know your christian theology realy well and look at the evas youll notice that each look like different "demons".
A friend of mine explaned each one to me, but i can only remember unit 02 is Marduk (4 eyes 6 (i think) ears, and theres other stuff but its been a while since i was told this).