Incantation bowl — Amulet Atlas A plain earthenware bowl with writing inside it. The text is inked in a spiral that starts at the rim and winds inward to the centre, most often in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, sometimes Mandaic, Syriac, Arabic or… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/incantation-bowl/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K
The serpent — Amulet Atlas A snake, drawn coiled, reared, entwined in pairs, or hooded above a head. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/serpent/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
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
The beetle — Amulet Atlas A dung beetle seen from above — head, wing case and legs indicated, the underside left flat so it can be engraved. Usually identified as Scarabaeus sacer. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/scarab-sign/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
Ethiopian scroll craft — Amulet Atlas The making of painted parchment scrolls by dabtaras — unordained clerics of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church — for named people, cut to their height, written in Ge'ez, and read aloud to them by someone who can read it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/ethiopian-scroll-craft/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Counting beads — Amulet Atlas A string of a fixed number of beads or knots, run through the fingers so that the hand keeps count while the mouth says something. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/counting-beads/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 38K
Hei matau — Amulet Atlas A heavily stylised fish hook, carved in bone or pounamu — the Māori term for the hard green stones, chiefly nephrite jade, found only in the South Island — and worn at the neck on a cord. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/hei-matau/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
taweez — Amulet Atlas The word across the Muslim world for a worn written charm and, by extension, for the object it is folded into: a pendant, letters carved on metal, a framed prayer. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/taweez-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
apotropaic — Amulet Atlas The scholar's adjective, and nobody's own. No wearer calls a bead apotropaic. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/apotropaic-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
periapt — Amulet Atlas An English word for an amulet worn hung round the neck, defined by the hanging rather than by the shape or the material. It is close to dead. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/periapt/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
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