Words — Amulet Atlas Amulet, talisman, charm, ta'wiz, omamori, nazar — and what each one actually says. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/words/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 30K
Ankh amulet — Amulet Atlas A T with a loop on top, the loop shaped like a droplet. As an amulet it is small and strung at the neck; the earliest ones are gold or electrum, the alloy of gold and silver, and later ones are mostly faience — quartz… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/ankh-amulet/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Hei matau — Amulet Atlas A heavily stylised fish hook, carved in bone or pounamu — the Māori term for the hard green stones, chiefly nephrite jade, found only in the South Island — and worn at the neck on a cord. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/hei-matau/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Witch bottle — Amulet Atlas A stoppered vessel filled with the afflicted person's urine and with sharp iron — pins, needles, nails — then hidden. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/witch-bottle/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
The eye everywhere — Amulet Atlas An eye is drawn, moulded, beaded or painted on protective objects from the Tigris to Tijuana, and the temptation is to call that a single human idea. It is not one thing. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/the-eye-everywhere/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 42K
Walter Leo Hildburgh — Amulet Atlas American collector and art historian, 1876–1955, who bought amulets in vast numbers across Europe, Asia and the Middle East and then wrote about them. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/walter-hildburgh/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Nkisi — Amulet Atlas A container with a spirit in it. The container can be a ceramic vessel, a gourd, an animal horn, a shell, a cloth bundle — anything that will hold spiritually charged substances — and it can also be a carved wooden… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/nkisi/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 47K
Figa — Amulet Atlas A closed fist with the thumb pushed up between the index and middle fingers, carved small and drilled for a cord. In Asturias it is cut from jet; elsewhere from coral, silver, gold, bone or moulded resin. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/figa/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Palad khik — Amulet Atlas A carved phallus, from a couple of inches to several feet long, in wood, metal, bone, horn or ivory, usually with sacred inscriptions cut into it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/palad-khik/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
Iron — Amulet Atlas The commonest useful metal and the one that rusts. Because it corrodes so readily, ancient iron objects are far rarer in the ground than gold or silver ones — the survival order of the metals runs opposite to how common… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/iron/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
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