Iron — Amulet Atlas The commonest useful metal and the one that rusts. Because it corrodes so readily, ancient iron objects are far rarer in the ground than gold or silver ones — the survival order of the metals runs opposite to how common… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/iron/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Cornicello — Amulet Atlas A single twisted horn, a few centimetres long, tapering to a point and pierced at the wide end for a chain. Gold, silver, plastic, bone, terracotta or red coral. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/cornicello/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Dzi bead — Amulet Atlas A tube of agate, brown to black, carrying pale ivory-white patterns that were etched into the stone rather than cut: circles, ovals, squares, waves, zigzags, stripes, lines, diamonds, dots. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/dzi-bead/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Inheriting — Amulet Atlas A charm that passes from one person to the next and gathers weight as it goes. The object is the same object; what changes is that it now carries a line of people. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/inheriting/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Kamea — Amulet Atlas A written amulet: a small sheet of parchment, paper or thin metal, inscribed in Hebrew with divine and angelic names, sometimes laid out as a grid of letters or numbers, then folded or rolled and carried, hung at a bed… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/kamea/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Fu talisman — Amulet Atlas A sheet — usually paper, sometimes cloth, sometimes a coin's face — written over in a script nobody is meant to read. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/fu-talisman/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Horseshoe — Amulet Atlas A U of iron, drilled with nail holes, that spent its first life nailed to a hoof. As a charm it is the used one: worn thin at the toe, still carrying nail stubs, fixed over a doorway. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/horseshoe/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K
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
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
Sungkhor — Amulet Atlas A diagram on paper, folded down to a small packet and bound in coloured thread. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/sungkhor/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
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