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
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
Cornicello — Amulet Atlas A single twisted horn, a few centimetres long, tapering to a point and pierced at the wide end for a chain. Gold, silver, plastic, bone, terracotta or red coral. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/cornicello/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Dzi bead — Amulet Atlas A tube of agate, brown to black, carrying pale ivory-white patterns that were etched into the stone rather than cut: circles, ovals, squares, waves, zigzags, stripes, lines, diamonds, dots. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/dzi-bead/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Inheriting — Amulet Atlas A charm that passes from one person to the next and gathers weight as it goes. The object is the same object; what changes is that it now carries a line of people. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/inheriting/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Fu talisman — Amulet Atlas A sheet — usually paper, sometimes cloth, sometimes a coin's face — written over in a script nobody is meant to read. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/fu-talisman/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
What this atlas does not print — Amulet Atlas Open the map and one continent is close to empty. Australia has one of the longest continuous records of protective objects anywhere, and this atlas prints almost none of it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/what-this-atlas-does-not-print/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 41K
Sungkhor — Amulet Atlas A diagram on paper, folded down to a small packet and bound in coloured thread. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/sungkhor/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Ethiopian talismanic scroll — Amulet Atlas A long strip of parchment — goat or sheep hide, soaked, dried, stretched, scraped and washed until it takes ink — painted with prayers in Ge'ez and with talismanic drawings, then rolled. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/ethiopian-magic-scroll/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
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