of the mystery of the red seal letters

Quite a number of bloggers have received strange letters with red seal markings (black envelope sealed with red wax). The links below points to some who have received them.


A photo of the "red seal" letter by First Showing.

J.C. Hutchins writes "Down the Rabbit Hole" in his blog,

J.C. Hutchins discovered an unusual envelope in his mail today … and inside was an item so mysterious and perplexing, he had to document its contents for you. It appears to be a “rabbit hole” — an intriguing gateway into a viral promotion or Alternate Reality Game.

J.C. has tracked to other people who had received the strange mail but not identical. He has taken a video and photos of the letter with the red seal markings.

YesButNoButYes (who first blogged about the letter here) has a link to this site which shows the similar red seal markings.

According to First Showing referring to the photo above,

If you look at Chishio.jp, which incidentally means "blood" in Japanese, there are four separate sheets of paper. Each sheet apparently is of a different language: (from right to left) Akkadian, Hieratic, Greek and Sumerian. I certainly can't confirm the validity here and it's been discussed at length back and forth, but I think it's safe to say the language is unique to each piece of paper. If that's the case, we need to ask what the common thread here must be? From what I can tell, no one has actually translated any of the material, either because the lettering is too stylized, or it's a pain in the ass to find a Sumerian translator. Obviously.

As for the circular red marking and the 'tb' logo, there's been little discovery there as well.

Screenshot of the Chishio.jp website