Nkisi — Amulet Atlas A container with a spirit in it. The container can be a ceramic vessel, a gourd, an animal horn, a shell, a cloth bundle — anything that will hold spiritually charged substances — and it can also be a carved wooden… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/nkisi/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 47K
fu — Amulet Atlas One character, printed on a square of red paper and pasted at the entrance, usually turned upside down. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/fu-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
apotropaic — Amulet Atlas The scholar's adjective, and nobody's own. No wearer calls a bead apotropaic. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/apotropaic-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
mojo — Amulet Atlas In Hoodoo, the African American spiritual tradition, mojo is both the conjure work and the bag that holds it — Wikipedia's article calls a mojo bag a prayer in a bag, a spell that can be carried on the body. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/mojo-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
Catholic sacramentals — Amulet Atlas The class of blessed objects and rites the Catholic Church puts around the sacraments: holy water, blessed candles given out at Candlemas, blessed palms, blessed ashes, blessed salt, a crucifix, a cross necklace, a… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/catholic-sacramentals/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 41K
Illa practice — Amulet Atlas A practice of making the small thing stand for the large one. Its oldest form is the illa: a carved stone llama or alpaca, palm-sized, with a cylindrical hole sunk into the back between the shoulders — a container, fed… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/andean-illa-practice/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 40K
Ladanka — Amulet Atlas A small pouch or a small hinged case hung at the neck on the same cord or chain as a baptismal cross. Cloth for the old kind, stamped or cast metal for the kind sold now, often with an icon on the lid. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/ladanka/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 36K
The map — Amulet Atlas Every country the records name, drawn in Equal Earth, plus every place as a point. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/map/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 665K
The lion — Amulet Atlas A lion's head on a human body, a lioness's paws on a hippopotamus, or a lion reared up on its hind legs. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/lion/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 36K
The votive wall — Amulet Atlas A surface at a shrine covered edge to edge in small identical-format objects left by strangers: hammered metal plaques the size of a playing card, wooden tablets on hooks, crutches wired to a grille. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/votive-wall/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
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