By The Eva Monkey on Saturday, December 10th, 2005
While on Otaku Generation, I was reminded of the now (hopefully) firmly debunked notion of the Evangelions being based on the four “barons of hell”. For those of you not familiar with this, let me break it down for you. The idea is that there are four demons/devils in some Christian biblical/apocryphal text that are known as the “barons of hell”. One has a large singular eye, one has a single horn, one is blood red with four eyes and two mouths, and the last is completely black with exceedingly long arms. These barons are sometimes referred to as being demons, devils, or originating from the Babylonian gods. This is even brought up as being true and legitimate on the Manga Entertainment audio commentary for the Eva movies. Well, make no mistake about it, this is one bogus fan theory, seemingly hatched to confuse and possibly amuse its creators. Well, I came back across this fairly extensive piece that goes through the various explanations and sources on this, and thoroughly debunks this. An interesting read to say the least.