Bone and ivory — Amulet Atlas Two related things a charm gets cut from: bone, from any animal including a human one, and ivory, meaning tusk — from African and Asian elephants above all, and also from hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and mammoth. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/bone-ivory/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
Palm leaf — Amulet Atlas Leaves of the Palmyra or talipot palm, cooked, dried and smoke-treated until they take a line. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/palm-leaf/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
Palad khik — Amulet Atlas A carved phallus, from a couple of inches to several feet long, in wood, metal, bone, horn or ivory, usually with sacred inscriptions cut into it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/palad-khik/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
Wearing hidden — Amulet Atlas The rule that a charm is not to be seen. Hoodoo mojo bags are made for one person and kept on that person, out of sight: men in a trouser pocket, women clipped to the bra, either pinned to clothing below the waist. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/wearing-hidden/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
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
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
Traditions — Amulet Atlas The whole practice a charm belongs to, and who is entitled to make one. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/traditions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 31K
The phallus — Amulet Atlas An erect phallus, modelled in bronze, bone or wood and worn, hung or fixed. Roman versions are frequently winged, and turn up as pendants, finger rings, relief carvings, lamps and wind chimes. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/phallic-sign/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
yantra — Amulet Atlas A machine. That is the word's plain sense and it has never gone away: yantra is an instrument, a thing built to hold and to do work. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/yantra-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
The fake market — Amulet Atlas Buyers at an amulet stall arrive with jeweller's loupes. They are not checking whether the clay is old — the clay is usually old enough. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/the-fake-market/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 42K
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