Bagua mirror — Amulet Atlas An octagonal or circular plaque with the eight trigrams set around a mirror at its centre. The mirror is flat, convex or concave, and which one it is decides what the object claims to do. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/bagua-mirror/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Tooth, tusk and claw — Amulet Atlas A tooth worn as a charm is the one material that arrives already shaped, already pointed, and already the property of something that could bite. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/tooth/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
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
The drawn signs — Amulet Atlas Twenty-six line drawings, one per sign in this atlas: an eye, a hand, an open palm, a horn, a knot, a serpent, a scarab, a fish, a tooth and claw, a crescent, a cross, a coin with a square hole, a mirror, a red thread… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/the-drawn-signs/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Faience — Amulet Atlas Crushed quartz or sand, a little lime and a mixture of alkalis, shaped and fired until a soda-lime-silica glaze forms on the surface, usually blue or green from copper. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/faience/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
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 tree — Amulet Atlas A tree standing where it stands. This is the one sign in the atlas that is often not drawn at all: the mark is the tree, and what a reader would notice is not a carving but the things tied to it, planted beside it, or… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/tree/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 36K
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
Illa — Amulet Atlas A small carved animal, usually a llama or alpaca, cut from hard stone — the Dallas Museum of Art's Inca example is green and black — with a cylindrical hole sunk into the back between the shoulders. It sits in the hand. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/illa/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
The name — Amulet Atlas A name of God, or of an angel, or a string of characters that stands in for one, written on the object and doing the work. Sometimes it is legible and sometimes it is deliberately not. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/divine-name/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 44K
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