[Nymph Philosophy] Why the nude female form?

[Barbrey]

I think it’s best to think of the nymph as a relational symbol with one stable referent. My interpretation of her is as prima materia, the prime matter, as a pun on the name prime mother or first mother, which is exactly what prima materia is. Prima materia is protean in itself, imprinting forms with a specific combination of the elements, and that mixture is only appropriate to the correct form. Prima materia is at the foundation of everything in the created form so she can change shape at will. She keeps her identity as prima materia - thus she can represent women as much as men, for instance,  because she’s always a pregnant woman, but you can’t tell what she’s doing or who she’s enacting except by her props, her expressions, her gestures or stance, or a narrative that she occupies. The entire manuscript is made up of symbols, however, so her props aren’t necessarily what they seem to be either. Still, if you think of her as substance not form, it makes things easier to figure out. For instance, if you see her bathing in a green pool that has a decorative ring around it only found in the Mineralus sphere of the rosettes page, you could conclude that she is not a she bathing in a mineral pool, but that she is the mineral being bathed.