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[![Nerv
Logo](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ta3qm.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ta3q.png)

As you can see, in the logo there is something covering parts of the text. It
sort of looks like half of a maple leaf.

What is it and why is it in the Logo?


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What is that covering part of the Nerv Logo?


The glossary contained within The End of Evangelion - Theatrical Program
states the leaf to be a [fig leaf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_leaf).

> The expression "fig leaf" is widely used figuratively to convey the covering
> up of an act or an object that is embarrassing or distasteful with something
> of innocuous appearance, **a metaphorical reference to the Biblical Book of
> Genesis, in which Adam and Eve used fig leaves to cover their nudity after
> eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and
> evil**.

And as the highlighted text emphasizes, besides hiding or covering something
up. It also references to the original sin of eating the forbidden fruit, the
fruit of wisdom.


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