[EVA] Angel Names and BAckground

[nocturne]

Sorry, but I think your point of view is a little restricted.
Anno has studied the major ebrew's ancient books, not only to grab out some
cool names and representations, I think.

- malebolgia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven McGraw" <stmcgraw at mail.vt.edu>
To: <evangelion at eva.onegeek.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [EVA] Angel Names and BAckground


> Grain of salt time.
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> It has of course been recently admitted by sources close to anno that no
> one on the staff was really thinking in religious terms when appropriating
> kabbalistic and christian imagery for use in the series.  The kabbalah is
> apparently just a useful symbol of a complex and mysterious plan, and
> everyone of course likes images of crucifixion, which even show up in
> sailor moon.
>
> As to the angel names, I suppose they used Hebrew because names like
> "Azrael" and "Tiriel" just sound cool.
>
> "Oh my god!  It's the seventeenth angel."
>
> "No, you can't mean..."
>
> "Yes...Cupid." (DA DA DUM)
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> Peace out,
>
> Steve
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> --Ph33r my L33t 0rth0l0g1c4l sk1llz.--
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