“[Hela] accepts every part of you, even the most rancid, horrible, twisted, shameful, impossible to look at parts. She is about redeeming the unredeemable… She’s never told me that I have to “heal” my inner monster; that’s not the point, and probably impossible anyway. But she shows me how it can be made useful. That’s the core of Hela’s mystery: the things about her appearance that are the most grotesque are the holiest.”
“Working With Hela” by Lydia Helasdottir, as found within The Jotunbok: working with the giants of the northern tradition by Raven Kaldera, p 301.