My thoughts exactlyBut I'm pretty sure the moon is what everyone thinks it is, but with the jubi's body at its core. Just like what nagato did to the kyubi, but bigger.
Yes, and I explained in my post that when Gedo mazo's rods connected to Nagato (who has an extremely high amont of unusually powerful chakra) only then did it actually do something besides moving a little bit and stretching. And after it was done with the jutsu that ripped the souls of everyone it touched Nagato was panting, as far as I remember, and he was visibly tired. My theory is that the rods that pierced Nagato in the back were chakra conductors (actually I'm sure they are as he used them to transmit chakra to the six bodies he used to fight instead of him) that supplied the massive statue with his chakra so it could work. And when it was used for the sealing of the bijuu it has never moved and has never been connected to Nagato.statue=juubi body....I doubt that it's the case. from what I recall, this statue was summoned by nagato when he screwed hanzo's fighters taking their souls. we remember that so6p separated the chakra from the body of the juubi. so if nagato would've summoned juubi's body, it would've been a mere inert body with no chakra because it needs the tailed beasts to "work"(nagato didn't had them). and from what we saw, that thing that nagato summoned was active. if you combine this facts---->the statue isn't juubi's body. cheers!!
When I linked izanagi and the jubi, I meant the following:
1. The jubi's body is far from earth.
2. the rinnegan has no relation to the jubi (they're completely independent)
3. nagato's power is tiny compared to that of the so6p
4. from 2 & 3, nagato cannot summon the jubi from that far
5. madara may need jubi's body to recreate the ten-tailed beast
6. from 1, 4, 5, madara has to remake the jubi's body from scratch.
7. madara should probably use izanagi to do 6, as there's no other similar technique
I didn't mean that the jubi was initially created by izanagi. Actually, I'm sure it wasn't.
Now for the whole gedo mazo vs jubi discussion, I can't agree with most of the arguments.
I'm a bit reluctant to pursue it because I believe that the jubi is not gedo mazo just as much as I believe that tobi is madara.
Gedo mazo:
1. an independent summon. Has to be, since the rinnegan is independent from all previous things. The rinnegan was not born as a response to the jubi.
2. nagato should probably be aware of what he summons, especially big things. Therefore, he should know what the BIG gedo mazo was. If it were the jubi, he'd probably call it that way. A beast does not name itself, so the jubi probably doesn't have more than the name we all know.
It's like trying summon a toad and you get the dead demon instead.
3. Tails don't just fall off. It's the great JUBI! I'm sure it's more resilient than that. And gedo mazo does not have tails.
4. Gedo Mazo is summoned by the outer path, not the animal path. So it's not like transporting it from a place (moon) to another. And we have to admit that it was inside the moon in the first place. again: nagato's powers are nothing of that scale, we all saw that when he tried to contain the kyubi.
5. I don't believe that nagato put 9 eyes on top of a bandage that covers the jubi's big eye.
6. The stubs that appear on gedo mazo and those that may be present on the jubi's body may be simple coincidences... just like so many other things in the manga. They're not even outlined. How could we tell what those are?
... but I'll admit they look a bit similar. Still, they have their differences. And quite major ones.
Let me first bring up something which was stated in the manga. Summoning techniques are techniques that transport an animal you have a contract with, a weapon (Ten-Ten's scrolls, even though it is not directly stated in the manga) or other objects (I guess there should be at least the knowledge where that object you want to summon is). Nagato has never summoned a living creature. If you look at the summons from his animal path they all have piercings and rinnegan eyes which heavily implies that they are also reanimated bodies like the six paths Nagato used. So he actually shows only capabilities to summon dead bodies that are to be considered as objects and the Gedo mazo. My second argument to this is that nobody has shown the ability to summon 2 types of animals at one given time (Sasuke's new hawk summon does not count as I would say he can not summon snakes now).
Now let me ask you how can you say that the rinnegan has absolutely NO sonnection to the Juubi? Just look at its eye pattern:
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I admit it is not a match but there is a lot of similarity. Even if this argument is too naive, the following one won't be. Let's go back to when Nagato as a child witnessed the death of his parents. He was enraged and his sadness caused the rinnegan to overpower his consciousness and he killed the two leaf shinobi. Later on when Yahiko was attacked by some stranger when they were with Jiraiya the same thing happened. He had NO idea what he was doing. So by this logic when Yahiko died the rinnegan could have done the same thing and decided the best course of action against this vast an opposing force would be to summon the mighty body of the ten-tails from the moon and fuel it with Nagato's chakra so that it (the rinnegan) survives. And this would be a good place to remind you Nagato has the same power as the animal path so it does not matter if he summoned it himself or the animal path did that (though I would think the animal path would be unable to do it). And let me add that this paragraph covers the two scenarios when a) the rinnegan is formed DUE to the juubi sealed inside of the sage; b) the rinnegan being in the sage's possession before his fight, as in the latter case that would perfectly explain why Nagato's rinnegan performed techniques Nagato himself did not know (even if the rinnegan is in Nagato due to genetical/reincarnatical reasons or it is the actual rinnegan of the SoSP and even if Madara made it himself by eye transplantations the eyes he used surely had connections with the sage himself and it is genetical again).
As for Nagato's power being tiny let me just tell you that the sage made the moon after he became the jinchuuriki of the Juubi. So he probably had extra help due to that fact. And summoning an object from such a great distance is in absolutely NO way as hard as actually creating the moon and getting it into orbit. Yes, one would need a VERY high amount of chakra to do it. But it will not be nearly half of what it would take to do the former.
You say you don't believe Nagato put the 9 eyes on the bandage?
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This is how the Gedo mazo looked when Nagato first summoned it. If he didn't put those eyes on the bandage did they grow by themselves? Those eyes are surely indicators of how many beasts are in the statue as a pupil forms in one of them as a tailed beast is sealed in.
Tails do not fall off, yes, but let me give you a real life example - chemotherapy weakens people and their hair starts to fall off. The sealing of the Juubi inside the sage left its body ultimately weakened as it had no energy left. That is how I would explain the missing tails .
And let me just remind you that Nagato's body was weak, he had trashed Konoha utterly, he had used elaborate techniques for the questioning of the villagers (like the king of hell summoning) he had reanimated some of his bodies with it, he used a large-scale shinra-tensei and that was all indirectly by transmitting his chakra over a good distance of a few kilometres. I would say when he was younger he should have been around his prime and that would probably enable him to summon the ten-tails from the core of the moon.
I am in no way trying to prove my point of view as superior to anyone's, if you just don't agree I will discontinue my attempts to share my thoughts about this matter with everyone else.