It really embodies the purity of clear air and foaming water. Perhaps early Earth really was a lot like this as it condensed (minus the lovely maiden, but then again, how would we *really* know she wasn't there?...).

Robert Wilhelm Ekman's rendition of "Ilmatar".

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