I was going to post this in the appropriate thread, but it was locked.
Anyways, I remember that a while back Reichu and Evamonkey were debating over whether the Sammael drawing in the intro was original or taken from a religious document. There was even a link to a page where some guy argued it had to be an authentic medieval design.
As I recall, the main objection to the Sammael drawing being older than NGE was the fact it had a core.
Well, ladies and gents, I give you this:
It's a design not unlike the one in eva. The funny thing is it actually does come from a highly religious place: the columns of the grand dome in the Hagia Sophia Church in Istambul/Constantinople.
Hope it helps the debate.
; Interessant. So this does at least provide a depiction of Samm (or whatever one wants to call him; in Kabbalah, the names Sammael and Satan are identified together, and NGE draws from the Kabbalah, so it works for our purposes) in which he is some kind of object (face?) centered completely within twelve wings. They are not the telling wings-with-eyes, though... I think The Evangelion Style shows an engraving or something of this sort of Angel (if Aaron could scan it, that would be nice; my copy is at home presently), and one doujinshi gratuitously places a couple of these on its cover... I'll try posting that a little later.
