Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-32457608-20170823143115/@comment-25122992-20170825134405

Can you read Kishimoto's mind in order to confirm it was a foreshadowing? Back then, it could be just a mere family symbol until Kishimoto suddenly decided to make a clan from it. More than ten years have passed between creating the chapter 7 and the chapter with Obito taking the Rinnegan, it was a plenty of time for Kishi to develop some new concepts from the old ones.