Ethiopian talismanic scroll — Amulet Atlas A long strip of parchment — goat or sheep hide, soaked, dried, stretched, scraped and washed until it takes ink — painted with prayers in Ge'ez and with talismanic drawings, then rolled. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/ethiopian-magic-scroll/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
The market stall sign — Amulet Atlas Whatever tells a buyer, before they reach the tray, what is on it: a painted board, a hand-lettered product name on a jar, a certificate propped against a case, or — in the oldest arrangement — the name of the street… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/market-stall-sign/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Blessing at a shrine — Amulet Atlas Taking an object to where the power is, rather than bringing the power to the object. The move has two directions and this record keeps them apart. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/blessing-at-a-shrine/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 44K
Phone charm — Amulet Atlas A small figure, bead, tassel or brocade pouch on a thin cord, knotted with a lark's head through a hole in a phone or a case. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/phone-charm/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 37K
The tooth and the claw — Amulet Atlas A tooth, a tusk or a claw, pierced or mounted and hung. Sometimes the animal part is left as it came off the animal; sometimes it is carved past recognition. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/tooth-and-claw/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Dating a charm — Amulet Atlas The timeline on this site is drawn from one field. Every record may carry a `dating` block with a start year, an end year, a flag saying whether people still carry the thing, and a word saying how the date is known. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/dating-a-charm/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 39K
Bulla — Amulet Atlas A locket on a neckchain: a round hollow pouch with something shut inside it, usually a phallus. What it was made of tracked the family's money — gold or gold foil at the top, lead, leather or cloth further down. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/bulla/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Tibetan protection craft — Amulet Atlas The protective end of Tibetan Buddhism: printed and drawn amulets consecrated by lamas, folded and bound in five-coloured cord, carried in worked-metal boxes at the neck or over the chest, hung on strings across passes… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/tibetan-protection/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K
Turquoise — Amulet Atlas A hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, opaque, sky-blue where copper dominates and green where iron replaces it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/turquoise/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Jade — Amulet Atlas Two different rocks under one word. Nephrite is a felted mass of calcium-magnesium amphibole, slightly softer but very tough; jadeite is a sodium-aluminium pyroxene, harder, rarer, documented from fewer than a dozen… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/jade/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
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