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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 ...

The Nine Daughters of Ægir & Rán are each named after a type of wave, which probably means they are personifications & manifestations of differing sea tops themselves. Perhaps this artistic interpretation NorsePlays more exactly how that is by making the waves their very hair : And since Norse & Classical Mythologies are descended from common Proto-Indo-European roots, one can maybe associate the depiction of these sisterly beauties with the idea of Aphrodite being born of seafoam, which is almost equally as curious as Heimdallr having all nine of them as his mothers. Given water's fluidity, perhaps a shared or traded once-a-month foam-lined womb gave the golden-toothed watchman of the Gods his níu-maternal origin.  [ Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán (2021) by Rim Baudey, graphite on paper & digital mixed media.] #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaire...