The following is a fanfiction written solely to get an
idea out of my head. All characters and the world it is
set in belong to somebody else, I don't know who right
off hand. Please don't sue me, I have no money.



               The Truth Of The Scrolls
               An Evangelion Fanfiction
                 By Valandar the Red

     It was barely an hour since the attack of the
seventeenth angel, and Ikari Gendo sat in his office.
He had recently acquired a copy of the only sheet of
the Dead Sea Scrolls that had eluded his grasp. At
first, the comments of the angel, as it sat in Central
Dogma and begged Shin...the Third Child to kill it,
had confused him. Reading this scroll, he finally
understood...

     "And so it was, that Lillith was Adam's first 
wife. But formed of Heavenly stuff was she, not the
solid stuff of Earth. An angel, assigned to him by the
Lord of All. He did not love her, but did know her.
Her first child was unclean, and abhorrent in the eyes
of the Lord. Then, did the Lord decide that it was not
right that mortal Adam and immortal Lillith should
populate the Earth. And Lillith was cast out of Eden,
to make way for Eve.
     "Lillith wandered the Earth for nine months. At
the end of this, she gave birth again, to twins. Though
brother and sister to the unclean child, they were 
fair to look upon. They were the Lillim, the children
of Adam and Lillith. But the Lord knew of their birth,
and grew angered that the sons and daughters of Eve
should share their world with the sons and daughters
of Lillith. And so, he cast them out of Earth, to
another land.
     "In this land, the Lillim grew in number. Aware,
in their hearts, of the children of Eve, they copied
their lives after them. This new land they called
Earth, after the place they were banished from. And 
they lived and died as men and women, unaware.
     "Lillith was forbidden to join with her children,
for her transgression. But the Lord made her a promise,
that he would one day send her, and others of her kind,
to the land of the Lillim. There, the Lillim would be
tested. If the test was passed, then the Lillim would
join her among the Heavenly Hosts. If the test was
failed, then the Lillim would be no more.
     "Hear, oh Lillim, be ready. None may know the day
or hour of the test, save that the return of our Mother
will be the beginning. And the children shall lead the
way."

     The Commander steepled his fingers. "Lillim," he
muttered to himself. "The Seventeenth Angel called us
the Lillim." Aware at last of what that truly meant,
he stood, and left his office, to prepare for the end
of his great and glorious plan.





Notes: Um. Well. This is what you get when you watch
 the twelfth volume of Neon Genesis Evangelion at just
 after 1:00 in the morning on a workday. I have no idea
 whether or not this is why the Seventeenth Angel 
 called them the Lillim, but it fits, to my mind...