Bone and ivory — Amulet Atlas Two related things a charm gets cut from: bone, from any animal including a human one, and ivory, meaning tusk — from African and Asian elephants above all, and also from hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and mammoth. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/bone-ivory/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
Tabiz — Amulet Atlas A written prayer, folded small and shut inside something. In South Asia the container is usually a flat or tubular metal case on a black cord at the neck or tied to the upper arm; the paper inside carries Qur'anic… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/tabiz/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Tattooing — Amulet Atlas The charm put into the skin, where it cannot be dropped, stolen, sold or taken off. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/tattooing/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Yant flash — Amulet Atlas Sheets of ready-made designs a customer chooses from: geometric grids, tigers, hanuman, rows of script running round a frame. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/yant-flash/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
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
Skin — Amulet Atlas The only amulet material a person cannot put down. Pigment is driven into the dermis — the layer of skin under the surface — where macrophages engulf it and hold it in a band just below the boundary between the two… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/skin/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 38K
Yantra plate — Amulet Atlas A geometric diagram, drawn on paper, painted, or engraved into a sheet of metal, and usually smaller and less coloured than a mandala. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/yantra-plate/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Sak yant — Amulet Atlas A tattoo. Geometric yantra, animals and deities, set about with phrases in Pali, Khmer or Northern Thai, pricked into the skin with a long needle — traditionally a metal rod sharpened to a point, the khem sak. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/sak-yant/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 40K