Tokyo Museum of History reports a theft of a three-hundred-year-old collection of tattooed human skins from their vaults. Among these is a full-body piece known as the “Hinzo Pattern”.
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The Hinzo Pattern is unique in that, though it is obviously of Japanese style and design, the images are not uniquely Japanese. Photographs of the skin show that among its images were divine beings from Muslim, Buddhist, even Aztec mythologies.
The photographic record is incomplete, however, and key photos are missing. The museum claims that the record was complete but has no idea where the photographs may have gone.
Possibilities
1 The skin collection has been stolen by art thieves who plan to make a small fortune selling such rare and illegal pieces on the world’s black market.
2 Images hidden in the Hinzo Pattern are actually formulae for elder incantations, capable of opening up doorways to other places should they be deciphered.
3 The Hinzo Pattern is to be worn by a cult leader during the performing of an ancient ritual. The skin itself works to focus the energies of the wearer in ways unimaginable.
© Eli Arndt
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