Inscribing — Amulet Atlas Writing the words that do the work. Lead scratched with a stylus, parchment ruled and lettered with a quill, silver foil punched with a blessing, metal foil incised with Khom Pali, paper painted with strokes nobody is… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/inscribing/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 43K
Holy rider pendant — Amulet Atlas A small disc or pendant, bronze on the early Byzantine examples and lead on the medieval ones. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/holy-rider-pendant/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
Carnelian — Amulet Atlas A brownish-red to orange chalcedony — silica, coloured by impurities of iron oxide — hard enough to take a polish and to hold a cut line. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/carnelian/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
European folk apotropaic craft — Amulet Atlas Protective objects made and kept by European households outside the church's list: iron over a door, a bottle in a hearth, a shoe in a wall, rowan bound with red thread, a cross of rushes in the rafters, a bead against… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/european-folk-apotropaic/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 50K
St Christopher medal — Amulet Atlas A stamped metal disc, 15 to 30 mm across, showing a bearded giant wading a river with a staff in one hand and a child on his shoulder. Aluminium, tin, brass, silver and gold all get struck. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/st-christopher-medal/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 42K
Via San Gregorio Armeno — Amulet Atlas A narrow street in the old centre of Naples, lined with workshops that make figures for the presepe, the Neapolitan nativity scene. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/san-gregorio-armeno/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 54K
The word that reads both ways — Amulet Atlas Writing arranged so its shape is part of the instruction. Two forms carry most of it. ABRACADABRA is written as a triangle, a letter dropped from each line, worn on parchment at the neck. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/palindrome-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K
The spiral — Amulet Atlas A line that winds in on itself. It is cut into stone, painted on pottery, blazoned on a shield, and — once, and importantly — used as the direction in which to write, so that the words themselves coil inward. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/spiral/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 34K
Tefillin — Amulet Atlas Two small black leather boxes with long black straps. The arm box goes on the upper non-dominant arm and its strap winds down the forearm, round the hand and round the middle finger; the head box sits between the eyes… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/tefillin/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 40K
Lead — Amulet Atlas A soft grey metal, cheap, heavy, and soft enough to scratch with a stylus and then fold in the hand. It is also poisonous, which is the whole of its modern story. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/lead/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 35K
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