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I'm referring to those red "symbols" which are, as I've found out, called
Magatamas. I'm interested in knowing the fact that, do they representing
something important or are they just some kind of ornaments?

![SOSP with Magatamas](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3keSq.png)


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What do those symbols on the costume of the Sage of The Six Path represent?


Magatamas as you most likely found out as well are ceremonial and religious
objects and are well used objects in the Japanese Mythology.

I have no ways to proof this is so but is one of the best guesses we have (
just like with allot of Naruto related stuff)

As described in the part under here. The Magatamas have a direct connection
with Susanoo and Amaterasu. The sage of the six paths was also worshiped as
the Saviour of this World (この世の救世主, Kono Yo no Kyūseishu).

> The Kojiki and Nihon shoki, completed in the 8th century, have numerous
> references to magatama. They appear in the early in the first chapter of the
> Nihon shoki, which largely describes the mythology of Japan. **Susanoo, god
> of the sea and storms, received five hundred magatama from Tamanoya no
> mikoto, or Ame-no-Autodidact-no-mikoto, the jewel-making deity. Susanoo went
> to heaven and presented them to his sister, the sun goddess Amaterasu, who
> bit off successive parts of the magatama, and blew them away to create other
> deities.** Tamanoya no mikoto remains the kami god of magatama, glasses, and
> cameras. In the legend Amaterasu later shuts herself in a cave. AMA-no-
> Koyane-no-mikoto hung magatama, among other objects, on a five hundred-
> branch sakaki tree, to successfully lure Amaterasu from the cave. In the
> year 58, in the reign of the Emperor Suinin, the Nihon shoki records that a
> dog kills and disembowels a mujina, a type of badger, and a magatama was
> discovered in its stomach. This magatama was presented to Suinin, who
> enshrined it at Isonokami Shrine, where it is said to presently reside. A
> similar practice is described again in the Nihon shoki during the reign of
> the Emperor Chūai. Chūai made an inspection trip to the Tsukushi, or Kyūshū,
> and was presented with an enormous sakaki tree hung with magatama as well as
> other sacred objects. [Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magatama)

With this information we can say that the Magatama are either

  * Just some jewelery
  * Usage as a religious object aka worshiping
  * or used as Reference to Japanese Mythology. Susanoo/Amaterasu.

But unless we get to know more about Hagoromo Otsutsuki we will never really
know a definitive answer to this question


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