Shaul Shaked — Amulet Atlas Israeli Iranist and philologist, 1933–2021, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/shaul-shaked/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Christopher A. Faraone — Amulet Atlas American classicist, born 1955, Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor in Classics at the University of Chicago. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/christopher-faraone/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Greek and Roman protective magic — Amulet Atlas A practice organised around one idea: harm arrives through a look, so the answer is to catch the look. The Greek word for it is apotrépō, to turn away. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/greco-roman-apotropaic/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Martenitsa — Amulet Atlas Twisted white and red yarn, most often made into two small wool dolls: Pizho, the male one, mostly white; Penda, the female one, mostly red and wearing a skirt. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/martenitsa/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Bakongo nkisi craft — Amulet Atlas The practice, among the Bakongo of the Congo Basin and the Songye of Kasai, of assembling containers that a spirit inhabits. The maker is an nganga: a healer, diviner and mediator. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/bakongo-nkisi-craft/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 42K
Glass — Amulet Atlas Silica melted, coloured through and worked hot. Glass does two things no other material in this atlas does at once: it holds a colour all the way through a bead the size of a fingernail, and it comes out of the ground… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/glass/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 36K
Room 1: Enlightenment, the British Museum — Amulet Atlas One long room off the Great Court, lined with tall wall presses and galleried in dark wood. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/british-museum-room-1/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 45K
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
Burying — Amulet Atlas Putting a charm in the ground and leaving it. Under a hearth, at the far corner of a property, in the threshold, in a well, in a wall. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/burying/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Worry stone — Amulet Atlas A smooth polished gemstone, usually an oval with a thumb-sized dish worn into one face, about 3 centimetres across. It is held between index finger and thumb, and the thumb is moved back and forth across the dish. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/worry-stone/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
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