Neon Genesis Evangelion Religious Links/Symbols??

i have a cousin named that..


eep

 

hiho

:glazed: holy fudge....are you people researching this stuff?? gah! this is so creepy...

 

He was supposed to be Cain.

 

This is like all really interesting to read and stuff, before I came across his thread, I did notice a lot of religious references and such. ^^ Though I still look to Angel Sanctuary for some controversial religious stuff. I mean, transvestite demons and playboy angels and incest, c'mon! ^^ It's always interesting to see how people twist and turn religion to make it so much more interesting than boring Sunday School or something. Well, s'my opinion at least.

 

it was either cain, as mentioned above, or i do believe he was also said to be the Wandering Jew who lives forever, awaitin for jesus' return, and the only way to end his life/wandering is 3rd impact....i really forget the rest...i watched to commentary so long ago...

another interesting thing is when misato and shinji are in the parking garage, the number of it is 667, the neighbor of the beast

 

where is this commentary from?

 

then death and rebirth, and end of eva DVD's manga ent. released ^_^. Amanda Win Lee (voice of am. rei), her hubby, and some other guy did it. was quite entertaining

 

the religious links were really obvious with the angels and teh explosions which are cross shaped.. never though THIS deep into it though

 

That's the beautiful thing about Eva, there's always something else to discover if you want to dig a little deeper...

 

so does the AT field, 'holy area which noone can enter' (or something) have any deep religious roots? or am i being completely gormless to an obvious fact as usual?

 

threads like this make me shudder, with loads of lemmings falling over themselves to dive off into the deep end of pseudo intellectualism. Perhaps I'll get around to replying to this, though I am in no real hurry to join the drowning masses

*amount-of-time-it-takes-to-read-everything later..

heh, well most everything's been covered. Regarding the AT field, I keep hearing that teh Absolute Terror field is a term in psychology referring to the barrier those with high egos or autism erect around themselves. I must admit that I am a little doubtful though, as the only places that say this are Eva sites, likely parroting each other. I have found no reference of an AT field on any non eva site, leading me to suspect that it's bunk. Please prove me wrong though, it won't be the first time.

 

I do believe that the Absolute Terror Field was invented for Evangelion as a technobabble plot device, as Eva sites are the *only* ones I've seen mentioning it.

 

about keel lorentz being the wondering jew:

im taking this from another website, but still...

"Note: Some people think that he is the Wandering Jew, but this is not the case. The main reason being that we see a young Keel in the Evangelion Episode 21 flashbacks and the 'Wandering Jew' is not supposed to age."

i have no idea if this is true, i cant remember that episode, but hey, just thought id throw that in there!

 

Nephilim_X:

I do believe that the theory of Lillith refusing to accept an inferior status to Adam is the correct one. As far as I can remember it is the classical one. I am open however to the notion that she may have just been independent to some extent and this has been overly focused on as the issue of women's rights etc. is a more modern one. I don't think they concerned themselves with it as such severl thousand years ago.

 

Ooh! Ooh! I just realised something!! the entry plugs are inserted into the back of the eva's neck, and apparently when satan/samael (or whatever the name is) removed souls, he'd doit through the back of the neck. i dunno, just seemed weird

 

Not sure if this has been covered yet, but Longingus is the Roman centurion who stabbed Jesus with his spear/lance.

(translation differs between Lance of Longingus and Spear of Longingus)