Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3568954-20140523074558/@comment-24068519-20140714065651

Actionmanrandell wrote: Everreddie wrote: Having Senju or Uchiha DNA has nothing to do with awakening the Rinnegan. Madara awakened the Rinnegan by biting off a bit of Hashirama's flesh, putting it in to his wound and when his life span was nearly ending he awakened the Rinnegan. He was basically mixing Indra's chakra with a part of Ashura's chakra and that brought out Hagoromo's chakra. This worked because Madara was the reincarnation of Indra and Hashirama was the reincarnation of Ashura and both Indra and Ashura are the sons of Hagoromo who wielded the Rinnegan. They're not literal reincarnations, they're just basically inheritors of the chakra. I got this from page 6 of chapter 671 "Naruto and the Hermit of the six paths...!!".

you keep denying the facts of the manga its a fact that it requires DNA of the senju and uchiha to be mixed. if he had not bitten flesh from hashirama he would not have gained the Rinnegan He successfully gained the Rinnegan because like I said before Madara was the reincarnation of Indra and Hashirama was the reincarnation of Ashura. Remember what Hagoromo said? "In other words, he mixed Indra's chakra with a part of Ashura's chakra.. ..and that brought out my chakra. That's how he awakened the Rinnegan." If Madara obtained Senju DNA/cells/flesh from a random Senju and put it in to his wound, he wouldn't have awakened the Rinnegan since the random Senju is not the reincarnation of Ashura (or inheritor of Ashura's chakra).