Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-5413572-20151114042410/@comment-5413572-20151114080903

But that's the thing- Black Zetsu wouldn't need to control Hagoromo's corpse, just rip out his eyes. It's been demonstrated that the eyes of dead shinobi can be removed, implanted into living creatures, and subsequently used without issue. Black Zetsu, meanwhile, needed someone to awaken the Rinnegan so the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path could be summoned- reviving Kaguya was the ultimate goal, but it needed to be freed from the moon first. But again, Hagoromo's Rinnegan would have logically worked equally well toward that purpose, and were already awakened.

And my question is why his corpse wasn't tampered with right after Hagoromo died- obviously it wouldn't be viable by the time of the series, but why not right after his death? And if Hagoromo did do something to prevent his body/eyes from being tampered with, then what might he have done exactly?