Okay, I haven't seen a thread get into much detail for Kaguya except for the ignorant haters who seem to have little to no background on the myths behind the series. I'll try to keep the sections concise since a lot of people don't like walls of text, but let's start with the biggie on who Kaguya represents:
Aditi (Sanskrit: अदिति "limitless") is mother of the gods. As celestial mother of every existing form and being, the synthesis of all things, she is associated with space (Hence Kaguya's dimensional abilities). She may be seen as a feminized form of Brahma.
In the myths she is the mother of the god of thunder, Indra (who is the most powerful) and Varuna (Who is the leader of the Asura, which are the lowest of the gods, hence why Indra is said to have talent over Asura by Hagoromo).
Varuna Asura:
Indra:
Varuna is known as the god of cosmic order, hence Naruto gained the power of creation, and Indra as the wielder of the most powerful force of nature grants Sasuke the power of destruction. The myths state that once a year they join as Indra-Varuna to establish order.
With the main players out of the way, we have to get to the generic purpose of the entire Naruto manga, which is Kishimoto's tribute to the entirety of the Japanese history.
The period of warfare mentioned by Hashirama can be traced to the real world Japan to at least and possibly before the Yayoi period (300 BC – 250 AD). All of Japan was at constant civil war between clans and aside from power struggles, no one knows what caused this dark period of constant battle. Warfare shaped the religions of Japan which affected their religions.
Shinto - Kishimoto represents the original religion of Japan as the Uchiha clan.
The native religion (660BC) is represented by the Uchiha eye techniques. In the myths Izanagi and Izanami are creator god and goddess respectively. When Izanami died, Izanagi tried to save her from the underworld but fled when he saw how decomposed her corpse had become. Later on he would come to birth Amaterasu and Tsukiyomi from his eyes, and Susanoo from his nose. This religion had a rather bleak view of the afterlife, which made it an easy target for assimilation by the later religion...
Buddhism - Kishimoto represents the foreign religion as the Senju clan.
In 552 or 538 a Buddha image was given to the Yamato leader which profoundly changed the course of Japanese religious history.This religion already had a history of assimilating other religions as it did in India, China, and the Korean peninsula. Indra is an example of an Indian deity they took into their lore. The Senju clearly show Buddhism through techniques like Shinsusenju.
Shinbutsu-shūgō (Shinto-Bhuddism) - Kishimoto represents this as Yinyang or the Six Paths power of both clans combined.
Buddhism brought for the idea of the cycle of rebirth which was seen as a much better than the notion of death in Shinto lore, hence why the Naruto series follows closely with their notion of the afterlife along with the Rinnegan and paths.
All of these things follow the path of Japanese lore and Kishimoto also made sure to pay tribute to the popular folktales such as the Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya, Journey to the West, and the tale of Princess Kaguya and the Bamboo Cutter. As history has a defined path, this means Kishimoto had a pretty good idea of the big plot points he was going to follow from beginning to middle to end of the series so time to cover a couple of misconceptions.
Kishimoto did not have the Indra/Asura thing visualized at the beginning of the series and pulled it all out of his bamboo hole.
False of course. He had already decided to give Sasuke a lightning affinity because he was to reach his peak of power as the thunder god. In fact, the entirety of part 1 is just Kishimoto setting up the plot points that were to lead to the Sage of Six Path's lineage. Wood Release, the Sharingan, Kaguya Clan's bone technique, Byakugan, and even Senjutsu through Orochimaru's cursed seals. This also leads to the even bigger misconception...
The Moon's Eye Plan was changed to be evil at the last minute because the fans were split on their opinion of it. Derp derp.
Completely false, just like Kishimoto had planned for the Indra/Asura thing, he had of course planned for Kaguya to be final villain since the very beginning. This comes down to how important of a role Aditi fills in the myths along with the Kaguya folktale which happens to be the OLDEST Japanese lore. Kishimoto decided to combine the biggest folktale of Japan with the most important deity of the foreign religion so of course Kaguya was going to be the single, most powerful being in the Naruto series since the beginning. The proponents of this silly accusation make their claims on mere assumption and ignore the template Kishimoto has followed from beginning to end.
Aditi (Sanskrit: अदिति "limitless") is mother of the gods. As celestial mother of every existing form and being, the synthesis of all things, she is associated with space (Hence Kaguya's dimensional abilities). She may be seen as a feminized form of Brahma.
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In the myths she is the mother of the god of thunder, Indra (who is the most powerful) and Varuna (Who is the leader of the Asura, which are the lowest of the gods, hence why Indra is said to have talent over Asura by Hagoromo).
Varuna Asura:
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Varuna is known as the god of cosmic order, hence Naruto gained the power of creation, and Indra as the wielder of the most powerful force of nature grants Sasuke the power of destruction. The myths state that once a year they join as Indra-Varuna to establish order.
With the main players out of the way, we have to get to the generic purpose of the entire Naruto manga, which is Kishimoto's tribute to the entirety of the Japanese history.
The period of warfare mentioned by Hashirama can be traced to the real world Japan to at least and possibly before the Yayoi period (300 BC – 250 AD). All of Japan was at constant civil war between clans and aside from power struggles, no one knows what caused this dark period of constant battle. Warfare shaped the religions of Japan which affected their religions.
Shinto - Kishimoto represents the original religion of Japan as the Uchiha clan.
The native religion (660BC) is represented by the Uchiha eye techniques. In the myths Izanagi and Izanami are creator god and goddess respectively. When Izanami died, Izanagi tried to save her from the underworld but fled when he saw how decomposed her corpse had become. Later on he would come to birth Amaterasu and Tsukiyomi from his eyes, and Susanoo from his nose. This religion had a rather bleak view of the afterlife, which made it an easy target for assimilation by the later religion...
Buddhism - Kishimoto represents the foreign religion as the Senju clan.
In 552 or 538 a Buddha image was given to the Yamato leader which profoundly changed the course of Japanese religious history.This religion already had a history of assimilating other religions as it did in India, China, and the Korean peninsula. Indra is an example of an Indian deity they took into their lore. The Senju clearly show Buddhism through techniques like Shinsusenju.
Shinbutsu-shūgō (Shinto-Bhuddism) - Kishimoto represents this as Yinyang or the Six Paths power of both clans combined.
Buddhism brought for the idea of the cycle of rebirth which was seen as a much better than the notion of death in Shinto lore, hence why the Naruto series follows closely with their notion of the afterlife along with the Rinnegan and paths.
All of these things follow the path of Japanese lore and Kishimoto also made sure to pay tribute to the popular folktales such as the Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya, Journey to the West, and the tale of Princess Kaguya and the Bamboo Cutter. As history has a defined path, this means Kishimoto had a pretty good idea of the big plot points he was going to follow from beginning to middle to end of the series so time to cover a couple of misconceptions.
Kishimoto did not have the Indra/Asura thing visualized at the beginning of the series and pulled it all out of his bamboo hole.
False of course. He had already decided to give Sasuke a lightning affinity because he was to reach his peak of power as the thunder god. In fact, the entirety of part 1 is just Kishimoto setting up the plot points that were to lead to the Sage of Six Path's lineage. Wood Release, the Sharingan, Kaguya Clan's bone technique, Byakugan, and even Senjutsu through Orochimaru's cursed seals. This also leads to the even bigger misconception...
The Moon's Eye Plan was changed to be evil at the last minute because the fans were split on their opinion of it. Derp derp.
Completely false, just like Kishimoto had planned for the Indra/Asura thing, he had of course planned for Kaguya to be final villain since the very beginning. This comes down to how important of a role Aditi fills in the myths along with the Kaguya folktale which happens to be the OLDEST Japanese lore. Kishimoto decided to combine the biggest folktale of Japan with the most important deity of the foreign religion so of course Kaguya was going to be the single, most powerful being in the Naruto series since the beginning. The proponents of this silly accusation make their claims on mere assumption and ignore the template Kishimoto has followed from beginning to end.
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