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Secrets of Evangelion

06: Adam

Two different-appearing entities, which may or may not be one and the same, have been referred to by this name at this point in events: a.) an object several centimeters in length resembling a human embryo, carried by Ryoji Kaji in "suspended animation" within a case and delivered to Gendo Ikari, an object described as "the key to the Instrumentality Project" and "the first human being;" and, b.) several weeks later: a giant, humanoid figure hanging from a cross in NERV's ultimate-level classified facility, the deep subterranean hangar known as Terminal Dogma. Upon first witnessing this figure, Major Katsuragi characterized Adam as "the First Angel;" Kaji added, "This is also 'Project-E'." The appearance of the figure described in b.) is that of a sexually indistinct human, white, hairless, almost blubbery. Its wrists are affixed to the cross by bolts or screws. Where its face would be is a mask, possibly physically driven into the figure (a dark liquid can be observed oozing from where the mask meets the neck). On the mask is the sigil of SEELE (see below). The "body" is missing its presumed lower half, as if severed at the waist; but close inspection shows many smaller (that is, human-sized) pelvises and legs dangling from the blobby terminus of the figure. A paler, serum-like liquid runs down from the figure to the bottom of the cross. Kaji told Shinji that his mother, Dr. Yui Ikari, who vanished during the initial creation of the Evangelion series, solved the "primary problem" or "'Eva,' born from 'Adam.— In an action related to the "Adam Project," Unit-00 pilot Rei Ayanami drove the Spear of Longinus into the body of Adam, where it currently resides at this point in events.

07: Spear of Longinus

Said to be the weapon with which the Roman legionnaire Longinus pierced Christ's side as he hung on the cross, the origins of the Spear are shrouded in uncertainty. In previous centuries the Spear has been variously claimed to reside in Rome, Vienna, and Krakow. However, according to a discussion (recorded by classified UN documentary footage and recovered by Brendan Jamieson) amongst scientists of the Katsuragi Expedition that first discovered Adam beneath their base at Mt. Markham on the Shackleton Coast of Antarctica, the Spear was found in the Dead Sea itself. It was subsequently delivered to the base's dock the week of August 7, 2000. The Second Impact occurred on September 13 during the experimental insertion of the Spear into Adam; the UN scientists attempted to pull it back after "the planned limit values" were exceeded. The Spear, however, continued to sink into Adam, whose A.T. Field released itself in an explosion causing massive tsunami, climactic change, and subsequent civil strife that led to the death of 50 percent of humanity within the next year. The Spear was recovered and brought to Tokyo-3 in 2015 by an expedition to Antarctica led personally by Gendo Ikari and his second-in-command, Kozo Fuyutsuki. The lore surrounding the Spear has extended into modern times, as it is maintained by some that Hitler's interest in the occult included this relic. From the gigantic dimensions (the length of an aircraft carrier) of the Spear recovered by NERV, it is evident that it cannot literally have been a weapon wielded by any human being. Neither does the Spear's design, that of a military fork whose tines emerge from the unwinding of a progressively tightened double helix, resemble any Roman weapon known to have been in use during the 1st century A.D. NERV, however, and its putative overseer SEELE, are organizations steeped in symbolism and seeking an esoteric meaning behind the plain text of scripture and prophecy. The association of the Spear with the structure of DNA may have been quite literal; one of the very last remarks recorded in the UN footage, mere seconds before the Second Impact, is "The genes implanted into Adam have already achieved physical merging." Taking that into account, as well as the uncertainty regarding the relic itself, speculation suggests one or more of the following: a.) the Spear is an authentic relic whose supernatural origins, like those of the Angels, were revealed only through secret revelations to which SEELE and NERV have access, b.) "Spear of Longinus" is a code name, chosen for its mythological associations in the manner of the names given to many modern military weapons, or even c.) the Spear contains encased within it the actual artifact; interestingly, one of the massive pillars over the high altar of the Vatican is said to contain the Spear.

08: Seele

German for "soul" (pronounced "ZAY-leh"), a committee variously shown to be of as few as five or as many as fifteen personages of apparently different ethnic or national origins, to whom Gendo and his sub-commander, Fuyutsuki, have been seen to report. "Seele" is the esoteric name of the (itself secret) Instrumentality of Man Committee of the United Nations. However, neither the existence of the Committee nor the name "Seele" are known to the general public; indeed, it is not known if anyone outside NERV is aware of their existence, and they appear a secret to many inside NERV as well. Also secret is the existence of the Instrumentality Project, the completion of which (and not defeating the Angels per se) Chairman Kiel has stated as NERV's primary objective. Adam, the crucified First Angel kept by NERV, bears a mask with marks resembling lunar craters above the sigil of SEELE—an inverted triangle with seven eyes. The origins of SEELE and Kiel are unknown, although "Lorenz Kiel" is also a German name, as is both "NERV" and its precursor organization "GEHIRN." Although sometimes communicating only through a hologram, there is certainly evidence to suggest Kiel is an actual person, his having been photographed in a public gathering with Gendo Ikari in 2002. Kiel is a Caucasian and has the appearance of a man in late middle or early old age; he possibly has sensitive eyesight, as he, unlike the other members of SEELE, wears a slitted visor over his eyes and wore wide dark glasses in the 2002 photo. It is known for certain that Dr. Yui Ikari, and through her, Gendo, worked for SEELE in the year before the Second Impact. It is possible that SEELE is indeed an organization of ancient lineage and a hidden power in world history (indeed, Ryoji Kaji suggests this is in fact the case, saying they at least are certainly the progenitors of NERV); they may also be of more modern origins and merely claim an unwarranted, exaggerated, or unproven antiquity to bolster their prestige or sense of mission, as has been the case with other secret societies such as the Masons and Rosicrucians. In any event, SEELE makes a convincing claim to have access to ancient knowledge, including knowledge of both the human past and future based on prophecies and revelations in certain secret Dead Sea Scrolls in their possession. A great many of the Dead Sea Scrolls—important early Jewish historical and theological documents dating from circa 250 BC to circa 135 AD—are publicly known to scholars. However, the first of the scrolls were unearthed under chaotic circumstances in 1947 and were restricted to a small group of scholars for many years thereafter; scholars also assume others remain hidden in private custody, if only for their priceless monetary value. All are factors lending mystery to these documents and make SEELE's claim to possess secret scrolls difficult to dismiss on its face.

Source: Neon Genesis Evangelion / Shin Seiki Evangerion 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン

by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

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