Scarab — Amulet Atlas A beetle, carved or moulded, with a flat underside cut as a seal. The back shows the head, the wing case and the legs; the base carries hieroglyphs — a king's name, an official's title, a short prayer, a hunting scene. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/scarab/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 40K
omamori — Amulet Atlas The Japanese word for a shrine or temple charm, and a rare case of a name that says who is doing the protecting rather than what the thing is made of. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/omamori-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 28K
Akodessawa fetish market — Amulet Atlas A supply market in the Akodessawa district of Lomé, Togo, for the materials used in Vodun practice. The stock is animal: monkey heads, skulls, dried birds, crocodiles, skins. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/akodessewa-market/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 45K
Washing off the ink — Amulet Atlas The charm written and then destroyed on purpose, so that a person can take it. Words are written inside a bowl, water is poured in, the writing comes off into the water, and the water is drunk. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/washing-off-ink/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
The drawn signs — Amulet Atlas Twenty-six line drawings, one per sign in this atlas: an eye, a hand, an open palm, a horn, a knot, a serpent, a scarab, a fish, a tooth and claw, a crescent, a cross, a coin with a square hole, a mirror, a red thread… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/the-drawn-signs/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Engimono — Amulet Atlas Objects bought at a shrine, a temple or a fair to bring a named good thing: a brocade pouch for traffic safety, a paper or wooden tablet for the household altar, a red papier-mâché doll with blank eyes, a ceramic cat… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/japanese-engimono/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 45K
Yantra plate — Amulet Atlas A geometric diagram, drawn on paper, painted, or engraved into a sheet of metal, and usually smaller and less coloured than a mandala. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/yantra-plate/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
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
Sewing in — Amulet Atlas Putting the charm inside the cloth rather than on a cord. A pouch is stitched shut over what it holds; coins and hair are sewn into a belt; a charm is quilted into a bedcover; a shirt is itself the charm, worn under… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/sewing-in/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Khan el-Khalili — Amulet Atlas Cairo's bazaar quarter, in the medieval city between al-Muizz Street, al-Muski Street and the mosque and shrine of al-Hussein. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/khan-el-khalili/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 45K
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