UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage — Amulet Atlas The UNESCO programme run under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. It lists practices, not objects. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/org/unesco-ich/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
Consecration — Amulet Atlas The step that makes a made thing a charm. A clay tablet pressed in a temple yard is clay until somebody chants over it; a printed slip is paper until a shrine stamps and empowers it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/consecration/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 40K
Traditions — Amulet Atlas The whole practice a charm belongs to, and who is entitled to make one. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/traditions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 31K
The phallus — Amulet Atlas An erect phallus, modelled in bronze, bone or wood and worn, hung or fixed. Roman versions are frequently winged, and turn up as pendants, finger rings, relief carvings, lamps and wind chimes. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/phallic-sign/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
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
The fake market — Amulet Atlas Buyers at an amulet stall arrive with jeweller's loupes. They are not checking whether the clay is old — the clay is usually old enough. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/the-fake-market/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 42K
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
Amulet Atlas — worn, buried, nailed above the door — and what each one is meant to stop Amulets, charms and talismans worldwide — what they are made of, where on the body or the house they go, what their carriers say they stop, and when and where each one is documented. Every hemisphere, from the Neolithic to a sticker on a… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 226K
Ekeko — Amulet Atlas A short, moustached man in Andean dress, above all a poncho, loaded to the shoulders with everything a household could want: bags and baskets of grain, food, pots, tools, banknotes. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/ekeko/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Exam charm — Amulet Atlas Four different objects doing one job. A brocade pouch a few centimetres long, the shrine's name woven into it, a paper or wooden prayer sealed inside and not to be opened. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/exam-charm/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 41K
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