Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26389094-20150918090852/@comment-26943214-20150919092622

Thekillman wrote: The Tailed Beasts are the chakra of the Juubi, and the Gedo Mazou is the body of the Juubi. How exact Kaguya and the Shinju are mixed in this is completely unknown, but given their nature it's probably a combination, though the Shinju is likely more of the physical aspect and Kaguya more the chakra aspect. Personally, I think that the Gedo Statue is Kaguya's body but after mutating into Ten Tails then being stripped of the chakra, leaving the body withered and shrunken. The 'tremendous life force' is probably the remnants of both her and Shinju's power left in it. In all likelihood, that's what kept the Six Paths alive after he created the Tailed Beasts.