Gau — Amulet Atlas A metal box worn shut. Himalayan Art Resources calls the type a portable shrine, generally made from metal worked in repoussé — hammered from the back so the design stands out at the front. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/gau-box/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Amber — Amulet Atlas Fossilised tree resin. Baltic amber, succinite, is found as irregular nodules in a marine glauconitic sand called blue earth, in Upper Eocene strata of Sambia, and comes from conifers of the family Sciadopityaceae. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/amber/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
The fish — Amulet Atlas A fish in outline, usually two curved strokes crossing at the tail. In Christian use the Greek letters ΙΧΘΥΣ are sometimes written inside it. In China it is cast as a coin charm shaped like a fish and hung on a child. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/fish/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Cippus of Horus — Amulet Atlas A slab of stone carved with the child Horus standing on two crocodiles, gripping snakes and scorpions in his fists, and often an antelope by the horns and a lion by the tail. Rows of hieroglyphs cover the rest of it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/cippus-of-horus/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
gris-gris — Amulet Atlas A word that names a small cloth sack worn on the person, holding Qur'anic verses written on paper and a set number of small objects. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/gris-gris-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
Burning at retirement — Amulet Atlas Ending a charm in fire, on purpose and in public. Old talismans go back to the place that issued them and are burnt together at a set ceremony; wish-plaques are burnt to release the wish; worn prayer flags are burnt… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/burning-retirement/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
The lion — Amulet Atlas A lion's head on a human body, a lioness's paws on a hippopotamus, or a lion reared up on its hind legs. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/lion/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 36K
Joseph Naveh — Amulet Atlas Israeli epigrapher and palaeographer, 1928–2011, who read the writing on the amulets. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/joseph-naveh/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Illa practice — Amulet Atlas A practice of making the small thing stand for the large one. Its oldest form is the illa: a carved stone llama or alpaca, palm-sized, with a cylindrical hole sunk into the back between the shoulders — a container, fed… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/andean-illa-practice/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 40K
Insa-dong — Amulet Atlas A neighbourhood of Jongno District, Seoul, 12.7 hectares of galleries, antique shops, paper and brush shops and tea houses along Insadong-gil and the alleys off it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/insadong/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 44K
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