The Mellos Amulet is a Zodiac and Calendar talisman in the form of a heavy cast brass disk, about 1" in diameter, slightly concave on the ornamented side and smoothly convex on the reverse. It is used for healing.

The ornamented side is covered with a dense array of symbolic images consisting of the Ba Gua (eight Chinese trigrams of the seasons and directions) surrounded by tiny animals of the Chinese Zodiac, embraced by the fierce figure of Maha Kala (or Mahakala)-- the cosmic figure of Great Time visualized as a monstrous man.

The Mellos talisman is extensively worn by mothers in Nepal and Tibet, who use it to soothe, heal, and cure the small injuries and minor illnesses of their children. They wear the Mellos as a pendant, and for ease of use it may be hung from a string or cord fixed to their garments at the waist. It is employed by rubbing the smooth convex side of the Mellos on the little ones' "owies" while saying a short prayer.

In a sense, although i doubt that Tibetan or Nepalese mothers would say so, the use of the concentric rings of seasonal, calendrical, zodiacal, and cosmic representations of time on the Mellos talisman would seem to indicate that the charm works by magically moving time forward to speed healing. It thus resembles the way that Jewish mothers hasten healing by pressing their hand over a hurt and saying, "You won't feel it at all by the time you get married," and Mexican mothers speed healing by rubbing a hurt and saying, "Sana, sana, colita de rana. Si no sanas hoy, sanaras manana." ("Heal, heal, little tail of the frog. If you don't heal today, you'll heal tomorrow.") to evoke the absorption of a tadpole's tail into its body as it matures into a frog and thus, by equating the pain with the frog's tail, to encourage the rapid disappearance of the hurt.

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