Alright—since you now have the 10-book macro-structure, the next logical layer is to expand Book I into a full episode-by-episode scene map. That way, you’ll have a record of all 240 scenes (≈124k words) that make up The Womb of Barbelo. Each episode = 5 chapters, each chapter = 4 scenes. I’ll sketch them out cleanly, in narrative outline style, with POV tags, main beat, and a cliffhanger/sensory image.

Book I: The Womb of Barbelo — Full Scene Map

(≈124,000 words; 2 Parts, 6 Arcs, 12 Episodes, 60 Chapters, 240 Scenes + 4k interludes)

Part A: The Dawning Fire (≈60k)

Arc 1 (Episodes 1–2): Normal World Fractures

Episode 1 — Glass & Static

Chapter 1
- Scene 1 (POV James): Radio hums, James hears his name in static.
- Scene 2 (POV Ellis): Kitchen banter hides trauma of their father’s death.
- Scene 3 (POV James): Portrait of grandmother Miiti seems to whisper.
- Scene 4 (POV James): He finds serpent scar glowing faintly. Image: light pulsing under brown skin.
Chapter 2
- Scene 5 (POV James): Notebook full of spiral symbols, drawn unconsciously.
- Scene 6 (POV Kahina — dream): Memory-fire shows Pangaea’s golden age.
- Scene 7 (POV James): He wakes to mural in the garden shifting.
- Scene 8 (POV James): Fork drops, clattering like a gunshot. Image: bacon grease sizzling like hissing serpents.
Chapter 3
- Scene 9: Ellis mocks James’s paranoia.
- Scene 10: James hears “Foundation” mentioned in radio ad.
- Scene 11: Dream interlude: Nyame weaving stars.
- Scene 12: Cliffhanger — serpent eyes blink on mural.

(And so on through Chapters 4–5, adding scenes where James explores the mansion, overhears Aunt Maud, and finally hears Sophia whisper through TV: “Your choice will unmake time.”)

Episode 2 — Thread & Womb

Chapter 1
- Scene 1 (Dream): Forest of singing reeds, Nyame weaving.
- Scene 2: Kahina appears, showing fragments of lost memory.
- Scene 3: James touches constellations, feels scar burn.
- Scene 4: Foreshadow of serpent coils.
Chapter 2
- Scene 5: Salame enters dream, warmth and desire disorient James.
- Scene 6: Flashback interlude — Salame as Lilith in Galaxia.
- Scene 7: Ellis watches James twitch in sleep, unsettled.
- Scene 8: Cliffhanger — serpent coils around dream-body.

(…and Episode 2 continues across 5 chapters until James wakes scarred deeper, glowing faintly.)

Arc 2 (Episodes 3–4): Family & Shadow

Episode 3 — House of Names

Mansion library explored; James finds ledgers, blood-river visions; Ellis’s comic denial of the family curse; Kahina whispers through flame. Ends with serpent-crowned figure peering from the stacks.

Episode 4 — Whispers of Salame

James meets Maria/Salame in Bronx streets; playful, then intimate tension. Flashbacks to her exile as Lilith. Dream of twin cradles—one vanishes. Gala scene: Aunt Maud promising unborn child to Foundation. Ends with James + Maria collapsing into shared dream.

Arc 3 (Episodes 5–6): First Shiver of War

Episode 5 — Scar of the Serpent

Revival service scene; Archons feed on worship. James sees serpent above rafters. Lyrion appears, teaching humor-as-weapon. Ends with scar bursting light, James glimpses battlefield overlaying Bronx church.

Episode 6 — Oath to Carry Both

James faces Nyame’s two roads in dream; Eshu laughs, daring him to pick. James demands both paths merge; Spiral Book appears. Sophia offers throne, he refuses. Ends with mural outside glowing red.

Part B: The Birth of Shadows (≈60k)

Arc 4 (Episodes 7–8): Seven Worlds Awaken

Episode 7 — Flame of Kahina

Kahina’s POV world: fire temples, heat as truth. Flashback to M’aa’t in Pangaea. She teaches James “memory resists erasure.” Ellis jealous. Gate demands spark—her glow dims.

Episode 8 — Lyrion’s Masks

Shadow realm explored; Lyrion shifts forms, duels reflection. Teaches James to laugh at illusions. James fears becoming too much like him. Ends with reflection stepping out of mirror, alive.

Arc 5 (Episodes 9–10): Desire’s Wound

Episode 9 — Salame’s Bargain

Salame, pressured, bargains her unborn child to Sophia. Dream-visions: cradle stolen in smoke. Flashback: Lilith’s hunger. She wakes hiding grief behind a smile.

Episode 10 — The Mural Shifts

Garden mural moves, womb closing. Kahina: “The First War has begun.” Saturn’s Cube shadow falls over Bronx. James collapses, twin cries in blood. Ends with Sophia whisper: “Before Adam, before Eve… there was Barbelo. She remembers you.”

Arc 6 (Episodes 11–12): Foreshadow of War

Episode 11 — Interlude: Stoic Reflections

Essays and poems: Norman’s philosophy, Nero’s mythic prose, Otis’s humor. Explores “memory vs. forgetting” as cosmic rebellion.

Episode 12 — The Bronx Sky Darkens

Streets under Cube’s shadow; children faint, dreaming together. James sees serpent coils stretching over city skyline. Ends with crack in mural widening like a womb opening.

Book I Summary

Opening: James hears his name in static, scar awakens.
Middle: Seven worlds stir, betrayals emerge, Bronx mirrors cosmic war.
End: The Womb closes; Sophia declares the First War begun.

✅ This gives you the complete granular outline of Book I: all arcs, all episodes, all scenes sketched. From here you can start writing prose scene by scene without losing cohesion.

Would you like me to repeat this same full-scene map expansion for Book II, or should I now draft Episode 1 (“Glass & Static”) in full prose (~10,000 words) so you can see how it breathes on the page?