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From: Morgan Hudson <dataraven_659@hotmail.com>
To: <ranko_1_2@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sent: Tue Oct 12 1999 21:22
Subject: Re: [FFML] [Query]Evangelion... Fact vs Fiction
Hi, Rebeka!
Does anyone know how much factual basis evangelion has?
My father is a minister, so I think I can help with this one! ^_^
was the destruction
of the earth by angels sent by god ever prophesized by the ancients
[irrespective of fulfillment of the prophecy]?
Yes. The destruction of the world by angels sent by God is covered in a
chapter of the Bible called "Revelations". It also mentions things
like Armageddon, and the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.
So is there supposedly going to be a succession of 17 [or so] each being
more powerful, that mankind has to defeat in a series of tests?
where do the various names of the angels come from in eva? [all i remember
for canon* is the last one is named Tabris but i know the others have names]
*canon: substituted in this phrase for "a fact" when citing a fictional
work.
are there or have there ever
been "dead sea scrolls" and what's really in them?
The "Dead Sea Scrolls" were a series of parchments found sealed in clay
pots a few years ago
by the Dead Sea (hence the name). Basically, the Dead Sea Scrolls are like
a rough version of
the bible, pre C&C. As of now, people still don't know what's written on
all of them, but
scientists are still piecing together the scraps, so someday we might
know.
- Morgan Hudson
(and you should watch him play Jeopardy!)
i noticed something about universal destruction myth-legends: a lot of them
are written in the past tense. all other prophecy myths are written future
tense, but armageddon/ragnarok/et.al. are typically taken to be past tense.
this makes no sense.
Anyways, on another front in "fact vs fiction" does anyone know if any names
of characters who would supposedly exist as of this point in time 1999
correspond to people? [i.e. Gendo, Misato, Ritsuko, more importantly the
surnames Ikari, Rokubungi [gendo's "maiden" name], Katsuragi, Akagi] and if
so could those people be the same people that will/have be[en] in
evangelion?
off-topic: anyone else notice that shinji has a big oedipus complex going?
he seems to be at least semi-in love with rei, who is a clone of his mother,
his relationship to unit-01 (who knows how that really works, and unit1 has
his mothers soul in it) , and he clearly hates his father [but then, so does
everyone else]