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The 10-tails body either is sealed in the moon or else it is the Gedo Mazo statue. It can't be both things. Tobi said the body of the Juubi was trapped in the moon, but Tobi does lie about some things. Here are some theories about what the Gedo Mazo could be, using the information we already have from the manga.
1) It is possible that both are true. The Gedo Mazo statue could be the body of the 10-tails, and originally it was stored in the moon by the Sage of 6 Paths. However, a later Rinnegan user (Madara or Nagato) was able to summon it to earth. This is just a hypothesis, but it does make some sense and we know that Rinnegan users have the power to summon it. We have to assume that a summon contract can work for distances as far away as the moon (and we have to assume that the "seal" the sage used to put the statue in the moon was able to be broken by later Rinnegan users). This doesn't explain what the origin of the Juubi is, which is a much bigger question.
2) Another hypothesis is that the Gedo Mazo is not the 10-tails body, but is instead a tool that the Sage of 6 Paths created and used in order to seal and eventually split the 10-tails into the 9 tailed beasts. The Sage created Gedo Mazo (possibly with Izanagi and other Rinnegan/Sharingan magic) in order to help battle the 10-tails, seal it, and eventually break it into 9 beasts. This makes sense when you consider that Gedo Mazo has 9 eyes, exactly one eye for each tailed beast. That suggests that the Gedo Mazo's eyes were created for the purpose of splitting and eventually recombining the Juubi.
If you look at the Gedo Mazo when Tobi summoned it to the battle field in chapter 536, it is wearing a robe like a Susanoo might. The protrusions on it's back could be the solidified versions of the whispy chakra that normal Susanoos have.
We know that Izanagi uses spiritual energy to create the form of something, and uses physical energy to give it life. We know that the Uchiha inherited the spiritual energy of the sage, and we know that Uchiha have a technique to create a form of spiritual energy: Susanoo. It is possible that the Gedo Mazo is a physical implementation of his Susanoo (He started with the spiritual form and gave it a physical body). We also know that Itachi's Susanoo has the sword of Totsuka, which allows something to be sealed inside Susanoo. Combine a larger scale of sealing technique with the other powers the sage had, and that is a plausible explanation for the origins Gedo Mazo.
3) It's also possible that the Gedo Mazo predates the Sage. The Gedo Mazo is clearly linked to the Juubi, and the Juubi was terrorizing the world before the Sage was born. So it's possible that the origin of the Gedo Mazo is tied to the origin of the Juubi. Look at some things like the Death God from Minato's seal which seals souls in its belly, or the King of Hell that Nagato used to take the souls from people and perform Rinne Tensei to bring people back to life. It's likely that these two "gods" have always existed in the Naruto world. The Gedo Mazo also appears to be similar: It comes from the ground and it has the ability to kill by absorbing souls. It is possible that the Gedo Mazo used to eat souls from people and eventually gained so much excess chakra from it that it created the 10-tails. By this theory, the Gedo Mazo can be either a god itself or could have been created by the power of another god (Minato's Death God or Nagato's King of Hell, etc). Later the Sage of 6 Paths could have tamed the statue to recapture and divide the Juubi.
There is a lot of wild speculation in this post. The manga really hasn't given enough details about the Gedo Mazo to narrow down theories of its possible origins.
1) It is possible that both are true. The Gedo Mazo statue could be the body of the 10-tails, and originally it was stored in the moon by the Sage of 6 Paths. However, a later Rinnegan user (Madara or Nagato) was able to summon it to earth. This is just a hypothesis, but it does make some sense and we know that Rinnegan users have the power to summon it. We have to assume that a summon contract can work for distances as far away as the moon (and we have to assume that the "seal" the sage used to put the statue in the moon was able to be broken by later Rinnegan users). This doesn't explain what the origin of the Juubi is, which is a much bigger question.
2) Another hypothesis is that the Gedo Mazo is not the 10-tails body, but is instead a tool that the Sage of 6 Paths created and used in order to seal and eventually split the 10-tails into the 9 tailed beasts. The Sage created Gedo Mazo (possibly with Izanagi and other Rinnegan/Sharingan magic) in order to help battle the 10-tails, seal it, and eventually break it into 9 beasts. This makes sense when you consider that Gedo Mazo has 9 eyes, exactly one eye for each tailed beast. That suggests that the Gedo Mazo's eyes were created for the purpose of splitting and eventually recombining the Juubi.
If you look at the Gedo Mazo when Tobi summoned it to the battle field in chapter 536, it is wearing a robe like a Susanoo might. The protrusions on it's back could be the solidified versions of the whispy chakra that normal Susanoos have.
We know that Izanagi uses spiritual energy to create the form of something, and uses physical energy to give it life. We know that the Uchiha inherited the spiritual energy of the sage, and we know that Uchiha have a technique to create a form of spiritual energy: Susanoo. It is possible that the Gedo Mazo is a physical implementation of his Susanoo (He started with the spiritual form and gave it a physical body). We also know that Itachi's Susanoo has the sword of Totsuka, which allows something to be sealed inside Susanoo. Combine a larger scale of sealing technique with the other powers the sage had, and that is a plausible explanation for the origins Gedo Mazo.
3) It's also possible that the Gedo Mazo predates the Sage. The Gedo Mazo is clearly linked to the Juubi, and the Juubi was terrorizing the world before the Sage was born. So it's possible that the origin of the Gedo Mazo is tied to the origin of the Juubi. Look at some things like the Death God from Minato's seal which seals souls in its belly, or the King of Hell that Nagato used to take the souls from people and perform Rinne Tensei to bring people back to life. It's likely that these two "gods" have always existed in the Naruto world. The Gedo Mazo also appears to be similar: It comes from the ground and it has the ability to kill by absorbing souls. It is possible that the Gedo Mazo used to eat souls from people and eventually gained so much excess chakra from it that it created the 10-tails. By this theory, the Gedo Mazo can be either a god itself or could have been created by the power of another god (Minato's Death God or Nagato's King of Hell, etc). Later the Sage of 6 Paths could have tamed the statue to recapture and divide the Juubi.
There is a lot of wild speculation in this post. The manga really hasn't given enough details about the Gedo Mazo to narrow down theories of its possible origins.