But, in my opinion, this is the moment where the films most clearly express what that relationship is. The four Adams together are, in some sense, "Lilith". So you basically have an Albion and Four Zoas (from Blakeian myth) situation here, to provide one possible point of comparison.

So: proxies for the four Adams, replicating Second Impact in some way, are referred to as "an artificial recreation of Lilith". But why?

The switch from an Adam-Lilith rivalry in NGE to there being Lilith and four Adams in NTE with a never-specified relationship has always taken fans off guard.

So... "same way Second Impact happened", eh? Four Adams' Vessels in four ships corresponds to the four radiant giants we see in flashback. The wings in the second image aren't defined well enough to get a proper "count", so let's not worry about that right now.

But this is more than some weird meta thing. When the first two ships produce wings, Misato says, "Wings of light? They plan to make Fourth Impact happen the same way Second did?" And with the final two ships joining in, "the stage is set" for Gendo to proceed with Another Impact, as per Fuyutsuki.

This comparison is pushed even further with a callback that is probably impossible to miss. Both using an identical pattern, Lilith resonates with the MP Eva Series, while Eva-13 resonates with, presumably, the Adams' Vessels and the ships.

Of course, if you follow this comparison to its logical conclusion, you don't really end up anywhere that makes any more immediate sense of Asuka being compared to Giant Naked Rei, but the various weird questions you start asking yourself are part of the journey with these films...

Then consider how the KoN acts as a linking element between the user's soul and divinity. And then think about what Eva-01, inside the "coffin" that Eva-02 attaches to, effectively is. Here is a crude schematic comparing the two things.

The immediate situational context for the top is Eva-02 successfully latching onto Eva-01 "coffin". If you look at Eva-02's prosthetic arm here, the three loops at the end may remind you something.

The movement of the 3DCG model for Eva-02 is of course nowhere near as dynamic as the hand(-drawn) animation for Lilith, but do note the similar pose, and how the tip of Eva-02's ring finger cheekily "touches" Maya's head.
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