In the flashback Ashura is standing in front of the full moon not the sun. But what I'm saying is the moon should have existed before Kaguya's sealing since the Yin/Yang symbols were a representation of the moon/sun cycle.
Is that the full Moon? Can you prove it? It looks no different then the Sun mark and is even drawn the same as it was on previous scans. Nothing proves that because the representation of Yin and Yang being Moon and the Sun should there have been another Moon in NV world, and the Manga even disagrees.
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Moon and Sun.
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Sun and Moon.
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Moon and Sun. This is symbolic representation, not literal. There is NO proof that the Moon was already in the sky, let ALONE TWO MOONS? LIKE WTF? Thus we can assume it was merely the symbols for their powers being shown just as it had been before. It's even talking about their POWER in the scan.
If there were two Moons where the **** did the other go? Or even Three?
I think what happened is Hagoromo created a CT large enough to look like a moon but it wasn't the actual moon rotating the earth. And the reason the statue is summoned from the moon is because it could have been turned into the moon's core. It wouldn't be far fetched because the moon is said to be hollow.
It was the Moon, it was stated to be explicitly.
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Moon in the sky shown, stated to be Chibaku Tensei etc.
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Only ONE Moon.
Databook:
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'The twins, assuming that the Juubi was a transformed Shinju attacking them in order to reclaim the chakra that was taken from it, faced off against it. And after a fierce battle, they activated Rikudou Chibaku Tensei, turned it into the moon and sealed it away.
Caption next to Hamura on the last page: The Gedou Mazou, the remaining shell of the Juubi, was later sealed into the moon. Hamura took command of the clan to watch over the Mazou.'
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Right there in black and white -_-
The Moon was only hollow inside the core originally, Hamura and the Otsutsuki later hollowed parts of it out.
But how would he send the Gedo inside the moon from his deathbed ? I think Hamura was responsible for him being able to produce that feat. They knew the Juubi couldn't die so they would have planned a way to keep it sealed after their death.
Because he did, it was stated. It happened. The only thing hard to gauge is the specifics of if the Moon was already in the sky or still in the Earth's atmosphere, nothing says it wasn't. In fact, the legend version of the story, saying Hagoromo made the Moon, said that he was the one who "lifted' it into space. This could be a hint the Moon was still in the atmosphere and Hagoromo or Hamura sent it up into space, but who knows, right?
Hamura was known to live on the moon, it's possible he may have placed a seal that would work as a reverse summon for the Gedo. So once Hagoromo decided to split the Juubi all he had to do was reverse summon the Gedo and send it to the moon where it would act as the core.
Never stated, never hinted at. It was 'Hagoromo" who sealed the husk into the Moon.
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