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Sorry if my example is a bit out of context. But I wonder if it is
grammatically correct to write 神々しささえ感じさせる異様な像?

What confuses me most is the fact that it is a verb and then a na-adjective
right after.

Also if you could give an advice on how I should think when translating that
would be appreciated. Right now I'm just thinking what sounds most natural,
but is there a specific order you should follow? If there is a "system" for
Japanese to English translating it would be good to know.

This example.

> 驚くほど大きく神々しささえ感じさせる異様な像だったという

This is my guess on translation:

> It was said to be a strange statue that was surprisingly big and even felt
> divine.

Or is it something with "divine strange statue".
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adjectives
verb and then na-adjective in sentence
> ... verb and then a na-adjective right after.

See: [* "The Japanese language does not have words that function as adjectives
in a syntactic sense"](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/39940/16344)

> 驚くほど大きく神々しささえ感じさせる異様な像だったという。  
>  It was said to be a strange statue that was surprisingly big and even felt
> divine.

That's near-perfect. Variants :

> It was said to be a bizarre statue that was surprisingly large and even a
> little awe-inspiring.
>
> It was said to be a surprisingly large, and even awe-inspiring, bizarre
> statue.

I try not to change the order of keywords and key phrases.

If there's a system (i.e., formal procedure), i'd like to know too.
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驚くほど大きく ("surprisingly big (and)"), 神々しささえ感じさせる ("(which) causes even a divine
feeling") and 異様な ("peculiar") all modify 像. Alternatively, you can think
神々しささえ感じさせる modifies the noun phrase 異様な像 ("peculiar statue") as a whole.

As you already know, 神々しささえ感じさせる is a relative clause that always modifies a
noun. So if another adjective follows right after, you have to "wait" for the
next noun (or noun phrase), which is 像 in this case.

The order is important: if the sentence were 異様な神々しささえ感じさせる像, people will take
this 異様な as the word that modifies 神々しさ (i.e., "peculiar divinity").
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