the cathar nymph and her victory over birth

[peteb]

It seems that one of the problems is that the VM was written in the 15th century and the Cathars were dispersed during the 13 /14th centuries. My simple solution is someone in the 15th copied what somebody else wrote in the 13th.
Given that VM may be a Cathar scripture of sorts, the theory doesn't sound too far-fetched.