[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.