Practices — Amulet Atlas Making, charging, wearing, feeding, retiring. A charm is a verb before it is a noun. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practices/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 31K
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
Salt — Amulet Atlas Sodium chloride, got by evaporating seawater in ponds, by mining rock salt, or from mineral springs. It preserves, it purifies, and it dissolves. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/salt/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
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
Ink — Amulet Atlas Pigment suspended in a liquid: charcoal and water in West Africa, sometimes with saffron added, and driven under the skin elsewhere. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/ink/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 39K
West African charm craft — Amulet Atlas Not one practice but a shelf of them, made by different specialists for different clients across Benin, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Niger and Cameroon: written Qur'anic charms sewn into cloth sacks; assembled… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/west-african-charm-craft/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 41K
Mesopotamian household protection — Amulet Atlas A craft with four moving parts: a demon with a name, a counter-power with a name, an incantation that addresses the demon directly, and a physical object — a plaque, a cast head, a figurine — placed where the danger… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/mesopotamian-apotropaic/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
The swastika — Amulet Atlas An equilateral cross with each arm bent at a right angle, so the figure has four-fold rotational symmetry and no mirror symmetry. It comes in two mirror forms: right-facing 卐 and left-facing 卍. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/swastika-sign/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 46K
Skin — Amulet Atlas The only amulet material a person cannot put down. Pigment is driven into the dermis — the layer of skin under the surface — where macrophages engulf it and hold it in a band just below the boundary between the two… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/skin/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 38K
Navaratna ring — Amulet Atlas Nine stones set together in gold or silver, one for each of the nine bodies of Hindu astrology, with a ruby at the centre for the Sun. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/navaratna-ring/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
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