Feeding the charm — Amulet Atlas Giving the object something to consume. Liquor poured on a cloth bag, a lit cigarette in a plaster figure's mouth, rice and salt and water set out in front of a paper talisman, a nail driven into a carved figure… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/feeding-the-charm/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Yant flash — Amulet Atlas Sheets of ready-made designs a customer chooses from: geometric grids, tigers, hanuman, rows of script running round a frame. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/yant-flash/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
fetish — Amulet Atlas A European word, applied from outside, to objects Europeans met on the West African coast and could not file. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/fetish-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Practical Kabbalah — Amulet Atlas The branch of Jewish mysticism that makes things: amulets and incantations built from divine and angelic names, written on parchment or cut into silver, and carried, hung or worn. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/jewish-practical-kabbalah/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 45K
Islamic talismanic craft — Amulet Atlas Writing, worn. The tradition makes protective objects out of text — Qur'anic verses, the ninety-nine names of God, names of angels and prophets, pious phrases, invocations — set on paper, parchment, metal, cloth or a… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/islamic-talismanic/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 50K
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
E. A. Wallis Budge — Amulet Atlas English Egyptologist and Orientalist, 1857–1934, Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/wallis-budge/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Consecration — Amulet Atlas The step that makes a made thing a charm. A clay tablet pressed in a temple yard is clay until somebody chants over it; a printed slip is paper until a shrine stamps and empowers it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/consecration/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 40K
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
Bakongo nkisi craft — Amulet Atlas The practice, among the Bakongo of the Congo Basin and the Songye of Kasai, of assembling containers that a spirit inhabits. The maker is an nganga: a healer, diviner and mediator. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/bakongo-nkisi-craft/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 42K
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