Dummy Plug Plant
The Dummy Plug Plant, or Deep Underground Facility: Central Area, is a room deep within the bowels of Terminal Dogma that is used to house the soulless Rei vessels that are said to be the cores of the Dummy System.
The arrangement of the brain, the spinal column, and the tube of LCL is a more primitive version of the Evangelion's Entry Plug system.
A sound of deep breathing and a heartbeat can be heard in this room whenever Rei Ayanami is present in the central tube of LCL. These sounds are never heard when Rei is not present in the tube of LCL.
The brain in the metallic casing may be Lilith's, as tubes lead from the back of Lilith's head in Central Dogma. The brain-casing has a representation of a vagina between the brain hemispheres. The sound of the heartbeat and deep breathing may also be Lilith's.
During Episode 23 Ritsuko destroys the soulless Rei Ayanami vessels by releasing their destrado.
The figure on the floor of the D.P.P.
The outer section of the glyph on the floor of the Dummy Plug Plant is from MSS. 2731, part of the Sloane collection of the British Library. To book the microfilm for viewing go here.
MSS. 2731 contains 4 books, 3 of which give instructions for the conjuration of spirits. The relevant glyph in the Dummy Plug Plant is used as magic circle in the first book, titled Ars Theurgia Goetia, in which the magician stands within in order to be protected from the spirit's influence.
Within the ring are written 45 Names in Romanised Hebrew that are interpolated with 9 crosses, splitting the string of Names into 9 sections. Each of the 9 sections contains 5 Names commonly allotted onto the relevant Numbers of the Qabalistic Tree of Life, the centre of the circle forms Kingdom also with appropriate Names (this is not visible during the show). MSS. 2731 differs in that the planetary glyphs are written around the outside of the ring, rather than inside it, as can be seen in the screenshot to the right.
Without the ring are four pentagrams inscribed with the name of God and a tau cross. Within each the four pentagrams is to be placed a candle, so that the edge of the magic circle is always visible to the magician.
The polar-graph within the centre of the glyph has not been identified.
The illuminated orange floor is in the form of a large square, with a illuminated green circle comprised of the letters ascribed to the four proteins that make up DNA around it. The square and circle arranged in this manner are a common emblem of earth and heaven, or body and mind, united.
