The Evangelion series is permeated with references to Kabbalah, Christianity and Judaism,[REF] complicating viewers' attempts to form an unambiguous interpretation of the series.
According to Patrick Drazen, the serie contains numerous allusions to the Kojiki and the Nihongi, the Shinto vision of the primordial cosmos and the mythical lances of the Shinto deities Izanagi and Izanami.