How many Lances of Longinus were there?

How many Lances of Longinus were there?

2 and a probably couple fake ones, SEELE build

So one was found with Adam and the other in the Dead Sea Scroll area?

1 Lances comes with every moon as an emergency self destruct. Lilith's got fucked when she crashed, so Adam's lance is the only true one in the series. The rest of the Lances are fakes created by Seele.

What about the one found in the dead sea area?

That's Adam's spear. It was probably moved when Second Impact occurred.

No, they brought it from the dead sea to the antarctica a week before second impact.

I thought you were referring to afterwards, since Gendo went on a trip to retrieve it within the series.

In that case, it found its way to that area after landing. Sea currents or some shit who knows.

That doesn't make sense, we know Adam was found impaled with the lance.

If he was found impaled with the lance then why would they experiment with contacting him with the lance?

Well, when Ritsuko talks during the Rei tanks there are images shown from the expedition and one of them shows Adam with the lance sticking out of his back.

So they removed it, took it to the Dead Sea for some reason, then brought it back to poke Adam again.

We know there's only one true Lance, otherwise Seele wouldn't have been so pissed about Gendo throwing the Lance up to the moon. Just pretend it's a science experiment, it's not that important.

>So they removed it, took it to the Dead Sea for some reason, then brought it back to poke Adam again.
Why would they bring it to the Dead Sea area?

Science experiment.

It just seems odd man, we know they moved the scrolls from there by then. It seems weird to just have the lance moved there as well.

Who fucking knows it's not really important.

Well the thing is that line wasn't in the original broadcasted version, they added in the revised episode for video format. It was deliverate, so it seems it was important for some reason.

The directors cuts just take shit from Death and Rebirth and run after the fact to make things a little more coherent. They also introduce things like Kaworu knowing about Adam being in Gendo's hand even though he's surprised to find out Adam is not in Terminal Dogma.

As many as Anno wants.

As many as there are caskets open.

That's a pretty big contradiction.

That could be easily explained by saying Kaworu just thought Gendo was down in terminal dogma

The lance was found with Adam, the experiment is absolutely confirmed in dialogue to be about mixing human DNA with ADAM, for some reason, something in this procedure involved doing shit with the Lance to put him in suspended animation.

It never left from Antartica until Gendou brought it to Lilith in Japan.

The background chatter at the beggining of ep 21/Death describe how the contact experiment is about introducin a donor´s DNA into Adam, they were doing a simple experiment to reach SEELE´s goal, creating a human being with a "divine" body, or a god with a human "soul".

>the experiment is absolutely confirmed in dialogue to be about mixing human DNA with ADAM, for some reason

Probably to give Adam the Fruit of Knowledge so it can become a godly being. Which doesn't explain why nothing happens when Gendo fuses it with his hand.

What ever happened to that project of getting the replica of lance of longinus built and put on the moon the nips were pushing for?

What do you suppose those white little mounds next to each open casket are meant to be?

funeral clothes, discarded

Humans might only have the Fruit of Knowledge collectively and not individually or else any Angel could just eat any person and get it. There has to be more to it than just possessing both Fruit, too, or else fielding Unit 01 would be as unthinkable as sending Lilith up to an Angel.