hamsa — Amulet Atlas A word that is a number. Five — for the fingers — is what the object is called in Arabic, and hamesh, also five, in Hebrew usage. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/hamsa-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Ethiopian scroll craft — Amulet Atlas The making of painted parchment scrolls by dabtaras — unordained clerics of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church — for named people, cut to their height, written in Ge'ez, and read aloud to them by someone who can read it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/ethiopian-scroll-craft/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Toli — Amulet Atlas A metal disc, brass, copper or bronze, ornamented on one face and polished on the other, worn on a shaman's body. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/toli-mirror/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Materials — Amulet Atlas Carnelian, iron, amber, coral, paper, hair, salt — and what survives. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/materials/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 81K
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
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