On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 06:50:25 -0400, "ten/mark" <tenchsama@cox.net>
wrote:

>I think we can take this arguement too far. I have always believed that the
>soul of the mother in the Evas was not specific to the Eva they tested. They
>manifested in the Eva, where their child was. I maintain that Yui did not
>die in Unit 1, but in one of the test Eva's buried in lower dogma. She
>existed in a state that allowed her to manifest in a different Eva because
>that was where Shinji was -
>
>But thats just me
>
Well, Gendo would address Unit 01 as "Yui" when speaking to it in
private, and in End of Evangelion, when Unit 01 activates and closes
its fingers around Shinji, he calls it "mother".