The bell — Amulet Atlas A small bell, hung or carried, that sounds when the air or the body it is attached to moves. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/bell/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 31K
Most of them are for children — Amulet Atlas Somewhere in every general account of amulets sits a sentence saying that the largest single class of them, anywhere in the world, is protection for infants: the cradle charm, the jet fist pinned inside a Puerto Rican… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/most-of-them-are-for-children/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 45K
Figa — Amulet Atlas A closed fist with the thumb pushed up between the index and middle fingers, carved small and drilled for a cord. In Asturias it is cut from jet; elsewhere from coral, silver, gold, bone or moulded resin. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/figa/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Scarab — Amulet Atlas A beetle, carved or moulded, with a flat underside cut as a seal. The back shows the head, the wing case and the legs; the base carries hieroglyphs — a king's name, an official's title, a short prayer, a hunting scene. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/scarab/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 40K
Copper and bronze — Amulet Atlas Copper and its alloys: bronze with tin, brass with zinc. It casts, it takes an inscription, it corrodes to a green skin and then stops, and it was cheap enough to make a charm by the thousand in places where silver was… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/copper/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 36K
Fushimi Inari-taisha — Amulet Atlas The head shrine of Inari, at the foot of a 233-metre mountain in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/fushimi-inari/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 46K
The fig fist — Amulet Atlas A closed fist with the thumb pushed up between the index and middle fingers, carved or cast small and hung at the neck. In jet it is black and matte; in coral it is red; in silver it is the size of a thumb joint. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/fist/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
Milagro — Amulet Atlas A small flat metal shape of the thing you are praying about — a leg, an eye, a heart, a lung, a kneeling man, a cow, a house, a car. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/milagro/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Ankh amulet — Amulet Atlas A T with a loop on top, the loop shaped like a droplet. As an amulet it is small and strung at the neck; the earliest ones are gold or electrum, the alloy of gold and silver, and later ones are mostly faience — quartz… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/ankh-amulet/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K