The Lovett collection — Amulet Atlas Trays and cases of small, worn, mostly cheap charms picked up in London streets between the 1890s and the 1920s by Edward Lovett, and the pictures made of them since: objects laid out in rows on plain grounds, each with… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/lovett-collection/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
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
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
Flinders Petrie — Amulet Atlas English Egyptologist, 1853–1942, who dug Egypt for half a century and sorted what came out of it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/flinders-petrie/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
What this atlas does not print — Amulet Atlas Open the map and one continent is close to empty. Australia has one of the longest continuous records of protective objects anywhere, and this atlas prints almost none of it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/what-this-atlas-does-not-print/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 41K
Cimaruta — Amulet Atlas A silver sprig of rue with charms on the ends of its branches. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/cimaruta/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
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
Bujeok — Amulet Atlas A paper talisman drawn by a mudang, the ritual specialist of Korean vernacular religion. The figures on it are built out of Hanja, the Korean forms of Chinese logograms, worked into shapes that are not ordinary writing. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/bujeok/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
The swastika problem — Amulet Atlas One shape carries two meanings that cannot be blended and must not be confused. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/the-swastika-problem/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 43K