Morten St George Theory

[Linda]

The tool is a caliper for measuring and means the lake they are standing in is drawn to different perspective than the other nymphs on the page, or it may be a compass that says draw a windrose centred here.

I think it would be just wonderful if modern women had the courage and imagination that those Cathar women display. I am quite impressed with them.

Contemporary academia, I believe, classifies them as nymphs. These are not nymphs. Anyone who spends the time to carefully study their drawings will soon come to realize that the VMS depicts real women who, however briefly, lived in a real swamp.

And they are naked not because sexually-perverted Italian monks liked to draw nudes, as popularly believed, but because the weather at that moment was steamy hot and there was no one else around.

I think of them as nymphs, standing for societies that inhabited the various places portrayed. They convey information through poses, decoration, and hair. They are naked to remove cultural detail. I dont see any swamps, i see them as far larger waterbodies.