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
Walter Leo Hildburgh — Amulet Atlas American collector and art historian, 1876–1955, who bought amulets in vast numbers across Europe, Asia and the Middle East and then wrote about them. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/walter-hildburgh/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
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
Figa — Amulet Atlas A closed fist with the thumb pushed up between the index and middle fingers, carved small and drilled for a cord. In Asturias it is cut from jet; elsewhere from coral, silver, gold, bone or moulded resin. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/figa/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Palad khik — Amulet Atlas A carved phallus, from a couple of inches to several feet long, in wood, metal, bone, horn or ivory, usually with sacred inscriptions cut into it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/palad-khik/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
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
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