Ongon — Amulet Atlas Two things under one word. An ongon is a spirit in the shamanic belief of Mongolia — after death, shamans become shamanic souls, ongod — and it is also the made object that stands for that spirit in the physical world… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/ongon/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
The mirror — Amulet Atlas A disc of polished metal, worn or hung so it faces outward. Two well-documented kinds: the Chinese bagua mirror, octagonal or circular, with the eight trigrams ringed around a flat, convex or concave glass, fixed above… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/mirror-sign/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage — Amulet Atlas The UNESCO programme run under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. It lists practices, not objects. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/org/unesco-ich/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
Red coral — Amulet Atlas The hard red skeleton of a colonial marine animal, cut and polished like a stone. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/coral/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Greek and Roman protective magic — Amulet Atlas A practice organised around one idea: harm arrives through a look, so the answer is to catch the look. The Greek word for it is apotrépō, to turn away. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/greco-roman-apotropaic/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Cowrie strand — Amulet Atlas Small sea-snail shells, egg-shaped, glossy, with a long toothed slit down the flat underside. Strung on cord, sewn onto cloth, hung at the neck, or thrown in handfuls. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/cowrie-strand/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Christopher A. Faraone — Amulet Atlas American classicist, born 1955, Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor in Classics at the University of Chicago. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/christopher-faraone/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Daruma — Amulet Atlas A hollow papier-mâché figure, round, weighted at the base so it rights itself when knocked over, usually red, with a bearded scowling face and two oversized white eyes left blank. Sold with no pupils. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/daruma/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Mesopotamian household protection — Amulet Atlas A craft with four moving parts: a demon with a name, a counter-power with a name, an incantation that addresses the demon directly, and a physical object — a plaque, a cast head, a figurine — placed where the danger… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/mesopotamian-apotropaic/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
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