Cowrie — Amulet Atlas The shell of a sea snail of the family Cypraeidae: egg-shaped, glossy as glazed porcelain, with a long toothed slit down the flat underside. Species run from 5 mm to 19 cm. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/cowrie/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Akodessawa fetish market — Amulet Atlas A supply market in the Akodessawa district of Lomé, Togo, for the materials used in Vodun practice. The stock is animal: monkey heads, skulls, dried birds, crocodiles, skins. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/akodessewa-market/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 45K
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
Cloth — Amulet Atlas Woven fibre doing three different jobs: a bag that holds a charm, a garment that is one, and a strip that records how many people worked on it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/cloth/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 37K
Sensō-ji — Amulet Atlas Tokyo's oldest-established Buddhist temple, in Asakusa, dedicated to Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/senso-ji/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 45K
Khan el-Khalili — Amulet Atlas Cairo's bazaar quarter, in the medieval city between al-Muizz Street, al-Muski Street and the mosque and shrine of al-Hussein. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/khan-el-khalili/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 45K
Grave deposit — Amulet Atlas Amulets put into a burial — on the body, in the wrappings, in the chest cavity, in the hand, around the coffin. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/grave-deposit/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 42K
Folding — Amulet Atlas The step after the writing: the sheet is rolled into a tube, folded into a packet, or creased into a shape, and then cased, sewn or sealed. From that point the text is inside and nobody reads it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/folding/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
The votive wall — Amulet Atlas A surface at a shrine covered edge to edge in small identical-format objects left by strangers: hammered metal plaques the size of a playing card, wooden tablets on hooks, crutches wired to a grille. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/votive-wall/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Agadez cross — Amulet Atlas A cast pendant, usually silver, with a ring or loop at the top and a flared, spreading body below — sometimes a cross, more often a shape between a cross and a shield. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/tuareg-cross/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
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