The beetle — Amulet Atlas A dung beetle seen from above — head, wing case and legs indicated, the underside left flat so it can be engraved. Usually identified as Scarabaeus sacer. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/scarab-sign/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
Milagro — Amulet Atlas A small flat metal shape of the thing you are praying about — a leg, an eye, a heart, a lung, a kneeling man, a cow, a house, a car. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/milagro/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
juju — Amulet Atlas In central West Africa — Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Ghana — juju names a body of practice and the objects and spells inside it. In looser English it means magical properties dealing with luck, good or bad. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/juju-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
Merkato — Amulet Atlas An open-air market covering several square miles of the Addis Ketema district of Addis Ababa, and the name of the neighbourhood it fills. An estimated 13,000 people work in about 7,100 business entities. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/merkato-addis/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 42K
fetish — Amulet Atlas A European word, applied from outside, to objects Europeans met on the West African coast and could not file. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/fetish-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Cowrie — Amulet Atlas The shell of a sea snail of the family Cypraeidae: egg-shaped, glossy as glazed porcelain, with a long toothed slit down the flat underside. Species run from 5 mm to 19 cm. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/cowrie/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
luck — Amulet Atlas The word the whole 'good luck charm' category hangs on in English, and a late arrival that came in through a card game. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/luck-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Room 1: Enlightenment, the British Museum — Amulet Atlas One long room off the Great Court, lined with tall wall presses and galleried in dark wood. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/british-museum-room-1/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 45K
mascot — Amulet Atlas The only word in this batch whose modern sense is a job. A mascot is a human, an animal or an object thought to bring luck, or anything that stands for a group with a common public identity — a school, a team, a… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/mascot-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
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
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