GLOSSARY PART III 
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[EVA-01] (SHOGOKI) 
EVA-01 TEST TYPE. The first EVA to be thrown into real battle. It is 
the second EVA, after EVA-00, that was built in EVA HQ. Although it 
contributes a lot in its participation of many battles against Angels, 
it also behaves unexpectedly in many occasions: going berserk, 
starting up without the presence of Entry Plug, staying active after 
its activity time limit etc. It obtained the S^2 Engine directly by 
defeating and devouring the 14th Angel. 

Colouring is purple. Dedicated pilot is Third Children -- Ikari 
Shinji. It seems that inside it lives the soul of his mother -- Ikari 
Yui. Also, it seems that the physical body of EVA-01 was made using 
Lilith. This is why in the case when the Spear of Longinus was lost, 
EVA-01 became the only substitute of Lilith as the tool for Human 
Complementation. 

[Human Complementation Plan] (JINRUI HOKAN KEIKAKU) 
A plan to induce artificial evolution for human, who had reached an 
impasse in becoming a colony of worthless, to become a total 
single-form organism. It was under the direction of SEELE, and the 
secret agency NERV was the implementation organisation. However, the 
expectations of SEELE seems to be different from the objective of NERV 
(which means the objective of Gendou and Fuyutsuki). 

EVA was in fact not planned as a weapon. It was built with the aim to 
realise this plan. More specifically, it seems that the plan is to 
artificially start the Third Impact, thus erasing all human, and after 
human shed their physical form, they will then evolute into a new 
stage. 

[Stigmata] (SEIKON) 
A word used by members of SEELE in ep.26 to describe the bloody wounds 
appeared at both hands of EVA-01. It is called "stigma" in English. 
Originally it means the burn marks applied on cattle or slaves. In 
Catholic areas, it is said that the wounds suffered by crucified 
Christ (on both hands, both feet, side of abdomen, forehead) sometimes 
appear on human with no external reason. 

[Tree of Life] (SEIMEI no KI) 
When the Human Complementation Plan starts, EVA-01 grows into 
something like a tree, with its roots spreaded towards the sky and its 
branches extended to the ground. Regarding this Fuyutsuki comments, 
"EVA-01 is returned to the Tree of Life". A Tree of Life that has its 
roots and branches inverted appears on both Hindu scriptures and the 
Kabbalah. This was called "the Inverted Tree" 

[Fruit of Life] (SEIMEI no MI) 
It is mentioned by Fuyutsuki in ep.26 as the thing that Angels have. It is 
written in "Genesis" of "Old Testament Bible" that at the centre of Eden 
there were the "Tree of Wisdom" and "Tree of Life". Human disobeyed the 
order from God and ate the "Fruit of Wisdom". But what if the "Fruit of 
Life" was instead eaten? Could the answer be the Angels? 
Moreover, the myth has it that one can live forever if he eats the fruit 
from the Tree of Life. 

[SEELE] 
A secret organisation that existed even before the Second Impact. It hid 
the truth about the Second Impact and the existence of Angels and uses 
its power to abuse UN and other countries. After the Second Impact, it used 

UN as a cover, established the Committee of Human Complementation and the 
secret agency NERV, and built the EVA series. 

SEELE's Human Complementation Plan is mapped out according to what was 
recorded on the "Secret Dead Sea Scrolls". The objective of the plan is 
to move human up to another stage of evolution. However, with the loss of 
the Spear of Longinus, and then the rebellion of Ikari Gendou, the 
commander of the secret agency NERV, it became inevitable that the plan 
has to be changed at the last stage. 

By the way, "Seele" means "soul" in German. All organisations that are 
related to SEELE, like GEHIRN and NERV, all have their names derived from 
German. Could it be that these organisations first started in Germany? 

[SEELE's Coat of Arm] (SEELE no MONSHOU) 
A coat of arm which has an inverted triangle superimposed by seven eyes. 
The same emblem was painted on the mask that covered the face of Lilith. 
Its relationship with Jehovah, who is the absolute God in "Old Testament 
Bible" and is sometimes said to have seven eyes, is unclear. 

[Second Impact] 
This is called so because the catastrophe was the largest since the 
Giant Impact, when a small meteorite collided with Earth 4 billion 
years ago. There were radical changes in Earth's environment: Floods, 
Volcanoic eruptions and change of Earth's axis etc. These, combined 
with the civil war on a world scale afterwards, caused half of the 
world's population to die.

Usually its cause was explained as a massive meteorite fallen on the 
Markam Mountain in Antartica. But in fact its cause was artificial: 
SEELE and Gendou's group reverted Adam, the first Angel, back into 
embryo before other Angels woke up, and this caused the Second Impact. 

[Second Children] 
It means Souryu.Asuka.Langley, who was chosen by Marduk organisation, 
after Ayanami Rei, as a suitable candidate. She received training at 
the Germany branch of NERV, and was then sent to Japan as the 
dedicated pilot of EVA-02.

When she lost her self-confidence because of low Synch-rate, she went 
missing for a while. She was finally found and brought back by agents 
from the secrety agency NERV. At ep.25 "Air", she was still taking 
medical care in hospital ward when the Strategic Self-Defence Force 
invaded NERV. 

[Tree of Sephiroth] (Sehuiroto no KI) 
A graph of symbols in Kabbalah (A mystery sect of Judaism which built 
around the mystery interpretations of "Torah"). It represented, as a 
diagram, the physical rendition of the 3-dimensional images of the 
spiritual realm. The same diagram can also be found in Gendou's office. 
The diagram is composed of ten circles linked by 22 paths. It shows 
the route of how a human can attain the highest possible spiritual 
level. Moreover, many other interpretations are said to be possible: 
As a step-by-step diagram for meditation, as a map that shows the way 
to wisdom, or as a prediction for human's future etc. In ep.26 "Magokoro 
wo kimi ni", EVA series formed a big Tree of Sephiroth on the sky. 

[Noises of Cicada] (SEMI no KOE) 
In the world of Evangelion, because of radical changes in the climate 
and environment caused by the Second Impact, Japan had lost her four 
seasons and had a summer climate all through the year. That is why in 
the anime the noises of cicada can always be heard. 

[Strategic Self-Defence Force] (SENRYAKU JIEITAI) 
A military force directly under the Defence Ministry of Japan. Triggered 
by the military conflicts between China and Vietnam over the Spartleys, 
it was formed by the Japanese government which had no military force of 
its own (all the army, navy and air force of the original Self-Defence 
Force had been incorporated in UN Force). The English abbreviation is 
JSDF, which stands for "JAPAN STRATEGY SELF DEFENSE FORCE" [sic]. It was 
also often called "Senji" as its short form. In ep.25 "Air", under the 
instruction from the Japanese government, one division of JSDF was 
deployed in an attempt to directly occupy the secret agency NERV. 

[Central Dogma] 
A huge and wide underground area directly beneath NERV HQ. Its lowest 
level has a sea of LCL and Lilith who was cruficied on a red cross. 
By the way, in biological terms, "Central Dogma" means the 
irreversible information flow that occurs in the transformation DNA -> 
RNA -> protein.