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perfected_sound · Postby **perfected_sound** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:41 pm

I was wondering if someone could explain the weird "mellow gold/infinite" symbol the the MP evas make around the uber-rei in EoE? I can't seem to find a screen shot of it anywhere...

YouTube · Postby **Reichu** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:45 pm

http://www.evacommentary.org/episode-m26/m26_C138A_col-disc.jpg

I have no idea exactly what this thing is supposed to be, either.

pen^2 · Postby **pen^2** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:06 am

Aoba says it's their AT fields resonating, so wouldn't it just be the pattern produced by the resonation?

The mellow gold wings/cross around Unit 01 are perplexing though.

perfected_sound · Postby **perfected_sound** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:22 am

Yes, that! Thank you! I understand that their ATF's are resonating, but I feel like it has to have more meaning than that. More meaning than showing some AT-power and looking groovy. It just doesn't seem like, at that point in the movie especially, that it could mean nothing. Beautiful imagery, though.

In the case of unit-01's cross action, it is about to be crucified. If I'm not mistaken, it has the cross for just a few more scenes also. Maybe the scene just before that happens?

BrikHaus · Postby **BrikHaus** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:42 am

perfected_sound wrote:...but I feel like it has to have more meaning than that [...] It just doesn't seem like, at that point in the movie especially, that it could mean nothing.

Uh oh. You just cast the Eva Yojimbo summon spell.

perfected_sound · Postby **perfected_sound** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:20 am

BrikHaus wrote:
perfected_sound wrote:...but I feel like it has to have more meaning than that [...] It just doesn't seem like, at that point in the movie especially, that it could mean nothing.

Uh oh. You just cast the Eva Yojimbo summon spell.

Eva Yojimbo summon spell? You mean theoretical paradox? Or just the fanwanking?

Hunter21 · Postby **Hunter21** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:29 pm

Fanwanking. The biggest meaning behind that symbol is probably the same for the crosses being put in Eva. It just looks cool.

perfected_sound · Postby **perfected_sound** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:35 pm

You mean the cross-shaped explosions in the series? Because I'm pretty much under the impression that all of the symbolism in EoE has meaning. The crosses at the end with all of the worlds ecstatic roaring was everybody's rei-induced final moment of bliss (like maya's brush with ritsuko). It might be that it has no meaning, but the movie is of an entirely different caliber than the series...

CorporalChaos · Postby **CorporalChaos** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:30 pm

looks Celtic. Start there in your search for meaning.

CitizenGeek · Postby **CitizenGeek** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:10 pm

CorporalChaos wrote:looks Celtic. Start there in your search for meaning.

Yeah, I agree. I live in Ireland and I see stuff like that all the time in history books and on graves and in really, really old buildings.

Coded to the Core · Postby **Coded to the Core** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:57 pm

The meaninng of a Celtic symbol can vary greatly. It can change depending on the tribe, the time period, and the favorite gods and goddesses of the region. In this modern era of Celtic appreciation many designs have been assigned various meanings. A symbol is born when a group of people agree that an artistic motif will carry a certain meaning. This can also vary from region and culture, from one time period to another. One symbol design and carrying more than one meaning. The best example is the Swastika. Before being used by the Nazi party in the Germany of the 30's and 40's, the Swastika was reverred as a cross motif in the Celtic world, a sacred symbol for the Hindus meaning 'let good-prevail' and an American Indian sign representing the sun, the winds or the four directions.

CorporalChaos · Postby **CorporalChaos** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:46 pm

Coded to the Core wrote:*snip*

Of course, many of the symbols you described are simple to draw. That one, not so much.

I'll agree that there many different meanings to symbols, and it would be interesting to find the different meanings that they have and compare. (Although, in this case, I'll just say it was Anno Syndrome, or adding of random symbolism into a scene to make it cooler)

Here, though, I was just pointing out that it looked a lot like a Celtic interwoven lace thing.

DatDude · Postby **DatDude** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:18 am

Anno is trying to tell the world that every time you say disco is dead you cause an impact

perfected_sound · Postby **perfected_sound** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:40 am

A sort of disco butterflyfly effect? But it results in Third Impact?!?!???
But really, if reichu doesn't know what that damn symbol means, than I guess Aaron Clark doesn't know what that symbol means, so maybe it's really just the MP evas ATF's resonating...

Coded to the Core · Postby **Coded to the Core** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:08 am

I Think that is the 'let good-prevail' symbol .

Postby **Sailor Star Dust** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:15 pm

...Or it's a new and improved version of the Bat-signal. :)

ZeroFive1 · Postby **ZeroFive1** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:26 pm

I'm voting for it looks cool.

I think it's too circular to be Celtic-originated, as Celtic symbols are much more angular. (The ones I've seen, anyway)

Postby **UrsusArctos** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:48 pm

Some Celtic symbols are swirls, including swirls that represent the cycling of the sun between equinoxes, others that seem to beat like a living heart when exposed to flickering light. There's a vast category of those types.

I doubt this is Celtic, somehow. It looks somewhat familiar to me, but I can't recall where I've seen it.

JP · Postby JP » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:28 pm

For a artistic meaning this vague....only Amanda Winn-Lee knows the answer.

:roll:

ZeroFive1 · Postby **ZeroFive1** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:28 pm

But these circles aren't very much connected, and some celtic swirls I've looked at seem to meet at one point.

They also don't overlap like that.

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