Good day Snake Oro Sannin!
...others are invited to join the discussion, especially MShark, 4bdN, Haris7, Sennin Jinchuuriki, Yukimaru Yoshi et al..
It was a good elaboration Snake Oro..
Your unification of eye powers and the dna of clans tracing back to the rikudo sennin's sons -- were great theories of the paths.
Going back with the eye powers -- I think that rinnegan is the best, BUT, we all know that kishi could possibly inject byakugan and sharingan as equally potent in terms of power. The idea I would like to stress here is that "the eye power" depends on "the USER".
Unification is a good term.. but a deeper thought would be "evolution" of these eye powers. Byakugan or Sharingan or Rinnegan could evolve into a more powerful doujutsu -- even though we all know these eye powers are somewhat interconnected in lineal terms (without questioning whichever comes first). Storylines state.. Rinnegan was the SO6P's eyes..and that is a fact not an opinion. However, we could have a theory of byakugan evolving to rinnegan..or sharingan to rinnegan. Interesting right?
In the manga's storylines state too that... nagato's rinnegan was not as powerful as that of the SO6P's rinnegan-- agree??
Then madara said that nagato was the 3rd path...
...according to you(pls correct me) nagato's rinnegan is the 3rd path
...in my views, it was "nagato's SACRIFICE" that seemed to be the path and rinnegan was just a token of this path.
In short, rinnegan is the most powerful eye doujutsu -- but it still "the USER" who emphasize this power( in this case, SO6P > nagato, therefore nagato is not the SO6P's reincarnation).
With the body part,,
I like your "emphasis" of the "dna" -- the blueprint of the body, of life, of the path. The senju and the uchiha clan's dna + juubi = the path. nice one...
But I really think that the SO6P was not the jinchuuriki of all the bijuu's chakra and will. I guess that the juubi is one of his powers, but not his path.
Yukimaru Yoshi's Buddhist paths are also interesting. But did you mean 7 pains = 7 paths Yuki? nagato is the 7t pain, the controller of life and death within a span of limited time.. but is not a path, neither are his other pains I think. Please elaborate..
Snake Oro.. one question for the day.. when you equate juubi to the "dna" thing.. which jinchuuriki's dna were you refering?
I hope to discuss with you, my 2nd path - Hatred - next time.
til then
hello jabznaruto.
when I was talking about dna and juubi I was reffering strictly to rikudo...it's stated in the manga(don't know what chapter) that he was the first jinchuuriki. to have the body, one would need his dna(the dna of the 2 clans) and all the tailed beasts to combine them and revive juubi's chakra(because we know that s06p created the moon to incarcerate juubi's body).
as for the USER thing you are absolutely right: nagato himself admits that s06p was much stronger than him. and we can see that when he tries to catch naruto with chibaku tensei, creating a very small replica of the moon and failing.
looking forward to your next post. bye!