I was inspired by the Russian Olympic skater Kamila Valieva performing a quadruple salchow, and a quadruple toe-loop, the first female figure skater to land a quad jump at the Olympics. So, I have drawn a glyph showing the ancient Egyptian dancer Her-Weben donning ice-skates to icedance with Osiris.

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