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
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
Cornicello — Amulet Atlas A single twisted horn, a few centimetres long, tapering to a point and pierced at the wide end for a chain. Gold, silver, plastic, bone, terracotta or red coral. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/cornicello/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Cowrie strand — Amulet Atlas Small sea-snail shells, egg-shaped, glossy, with a long toothed slit down the flat underside. Strung on cord, sewn onto cloth, hung at the neck, or thrown in handfuls. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/cowrie-strand/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
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
Buying one in a market — Amulet Atlas Money changes hands and an object becomes yours. It is the ordinary route to a charm almost everywhere — a tray in a lane, a counter inside a temple gate, an aisle at the back of a municipal market, a stall in a… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/buying-in-a-market/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 46K
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