Nazar — Amulet Atlas A handmade glass bead: concentric circles, or a teardrop, in dark blue, white, light blue and black, sometimes rimmed in yellow or gold. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/nazar/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K
nazar — Amulet Atlas A word for a glance that has ended up as the name of a glass disc. Naẓar in Arabic is sight, surveillance, attention. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/nazar-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Evil eye bracelet — Amulet Atlas One or more blue-and-white eye beads on an elastic cord, a chain or a red string, sized for a wrist. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/evil-eye-bracelet/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Amber — Amulet Atlas Fossilised tree resin. Baltic amber, succinite, is found as irregular nodules in a marine glauconitic sand called blue earth, in Upper Eocene strata of Sambia, and comes from conifers of the family Sciadopityaceae. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/amber/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Materials — Amulet Atlas Carnelian, iron, amber, coral, paper, hair, salt — and what survives. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/materials/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 81K
The swastika — Amulet Atlas An equilateral cross with each arm bent at a right angle, so the figure has four-fold rotational symmetry and no mirror symmetry. It comes in two mirror forms: right-facing 卐 and left-facing 卍. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/swastika-sign/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 46K
The charm in the wall — Amulet Atlas A whole class of amulet was never meant to be seen again. It goes up a chimney, under a floor, above a ceiling, into a roof void, beside a door frame, or into a pit cut before the first course of brick. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/the-charm-in-the-wall/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 40K
Maneki-neko — Amulet Atlas A seated cat, one forepaw raised palm-down in a beckoning fold, usually holding an oval koban coin in the other. The classic figure is a calico Japanese Bobtail. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/maneki-neko/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Azabache — Amulet Atlas A piece of jet — fossil wood, black, warm to the touch, light in the hand — cut either as a small clenched fist with the thumb pushed between the first two fingers, or as a faceted black bead. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/azabache/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K