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NEON GENESIS
EVANGELION DATABASE
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ARE THE EVANGELION BASED ON THE BARONS OF HELL?
This question is one that takes fans completely by surprise. To many
the evangelion represent the pinnacle of mans achievement in science and
the perfect unstoppable combat weapon, to others its a 60 meter tall
walking nightmare of uncontrolable temperment. Gainax truly unleashed a
monster to the world when it created the concept of the evangelion and their
AT-fields. The appearance of the evangelion are awe inspiring, although the
evangelion are primarily for combat they are also full of symbolism. Many do not
know that these designes were actually based upon the Barons of Hell.
Ritsuko Akagi describes the Evangelions as being "Something created by Man,
in Man's own image", like man being created in god's own image. The Barons
of Hell, are to explain literally are, the lords of hell. The Baron's of Hell
were a legend of Christianity during the medieval times. It is said that one of
them had "a single horn and great gnashing teeth (eva 01)", the second had
"a blank, featureless face with a single glaring eye (eva 00)", the third was
"the color of blood, with four eyes and two mouths (eva 02)", and the last
"black as night, with unnaturally long arms and wicked teeth (eva 03)".
No doubt these sound oddly familiar to the evangelion units.
It seems strange that SEELE and Nerv would have done this on pure conincidence,
rather then doing this intentionally, but for what reason could this have been?
To take it literally, SEELE and Nerv have put the Barons of Hell against the Angels
of heaven, perhaps it was preordained in the Dead Sea Scrolls, or perhaps they just
liked the idea of investing extra symbolism into the eva, perhaps as a scare
tactic against the Angels. Whatever the reason, the evangelion worked where everything
else had failed, equally dangerous but still the only weapon against the Angels.
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