Agnus Dei — Amulet Atlas A disc of wax, round or oval, with a lamb pressed into one face. The lamb carries a cross or a flag; the reverse usually takes a saint, or the name and arms of the reigning pope. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/agnus-dei/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 36K
The eye everywhere — Amulet Atlas An eye is drawn, moulded, beaded or painted on protective objects from the Tigris to Tijuana, and the temptation is to call that a single human idea. It is not one thing. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/the-eye-everywhere/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 42K
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
Counting beads — Amulet Atlas A string of a fixed number of beads or knots, run through the fingers so that the hand keeps count while the mouth says something. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/counting-beads/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 38K
Knotting — Amulet Atlas Tying, as the whole of the charm. A knot needs no words, no metal and no kiln — two colours of wool twisted together, a leather strap knotted into the shape of a letter, a thousand stitches pulled tight by a thousand… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/knotting/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K
nazar — Amulet Atlas A word for a glance that has ended up as the name of a glass disc. Naẓar in Arabic is sight, surveillance, attention. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/nazar-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
The knot — Amulet Atlas A tie, either made in cloth and thread or copied in stone and metal. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/knot/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
The number square — Amulet Atlas A grid of numbers in which every row, every column and both diagonals add to the same total. The order is the number of cells along a side; the total is the magic constant. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/magic-square/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Corn dolly — Amulet Atlas A hollow shape plaited from the last sheaf of a harvest: a figure, a knot, a lantern, a crown, a fan, a horseshoe. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/corn-dolly/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
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
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