the nine-fold mothering of Heimdallr.

This amazing depiction of Heimdall's Nine Mothers (2021 CE) by Brazil-based illustrator Runar Hall has so much going for it. The merging of early petroglyphic Sunna symbol with later runestone curlicue-jointed figures, the brave integration of a Hollywood Bathing Beauties film choreography as a still in the daughters' arrangement, and the just enough modern linear shaping & speckle work is so brilliant, plus the breaking of the 2D wall with the boat coming out toward the viewer to ferry all that mythic past into the artistic present as a single package is a serious delivery and achievement.

We have to presume Odin's being handed infant Heimdallr, and it's likely this specific visual identity cue that we can't see the boatman's left eye, and the Prose Edda's Skáldskaparmál §8 does attribute Odin as his father, otherwise some posit that he's a Vanic deity from his qualities mentioned in Þrymskviða §14, but these could also accounted for by Odin having learned those same powers from the Vanir and later passing them on to Heimdallr.

While NorsePlay's written about Aegir's Nine Daughters attributes before, the above hair as the tossing waves echoes our thoughts on how that manifests.

[Runar has an in-progress dedicated website here, otherwise can be contacted & commissioned via the usual social media outlets. Go look at his other work!]

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Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants at age seven. Since then he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the Map of Midgard project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay. If you have employment/opportunities in investigative mythology,  field research, or product development to offer, do contact him.