Here’s a Mailer-style master outline for your Four Ages of Barbelo series. It’s structured top-down, clear and complete: the spine of the mythic-erotic epic.

THE FOUR AGES OF BARBELO — MASTER OUTLINE

I. COSMOLOGICAL FRAME

The Source (Origine / Barbelo)
- The first womb, unbroken and infinite.
- Element: Water (Maa’t).
- Symbol: The Veil Sigil (appears in every age).
- Archetypes: Kahina, Salame, the twin currents.
Desire (Merkaba)
- Fire as passion, will, ascension.
- Element: Fire (Merkaba).
- Symbol: The Chariot of Flame.
- Archetypes: Orion, Anthropos.
The One (Mawu-Lisa)
- Air as paradox, trickery, orchestration.
- Element: Air (Mawu-Lisa).
- Symbol: The Twin-Faced Mask.
- Archetype: Mawu-Lisa, and the Divine Orgy.
Return to Earth (Gaia)
- Flesh, blood, history, decay.
- Element: Earth (Gaia).
- Symbol: The Womb of Stone.
- Archetype: Barbelo-Child, recursive mother/daughter.

II. CORE CHARACTERS ACROSS AGES

Barbelo (Origine): the eternal womb, the first.
Kahina / Maa’t: justice, balance, liquid voice.
Salame / Maa’t: twin reflection, rival and lover.
Orion (Merkaba): hunter, constellation, flame-body.
Anthropos (Merkaba): human-flame, mortality in desire.
Mawu-Lisa: trickster, orchestrator, air-twin.
Barbelo-Child: the return, flesh made divine.
Sophia (wisdom), Chronos (time), Abraxas (chaos): the trinity within Barbelo’s womb.

III. AGE ONE: ORIGINE (WATER)

Book One: The Waters of Barbelo

Prologue: The cosmic sea, without shore.
Chapter Cycle:
1. Kahina and Salame discover their twin currents.
2. Their ritual of waters births the Sigil of Veil.
3. Erotic floods create possibility, not form.
4. Origine trembles—pregnant with Desire.
Erotic Motif: Liquid unions, slow tides, dissolution of self.
Theme: Desire as origin.

IV. AGE TWO: DESIRE (FIRE)

Book Two: The Chariot of Flame

Prologue: Stars ignite as gasps of passion.
Chapter Cycle:
1. Orion hunts Anthropos, flame chasing flesh.
2. Their duel becomes intercourse, violent and sacred.
3. Each climax creates rifts—wormholes, paths between worlds.
4. The Merkaba (chariot of fire) is born.
Erotic Motif: Sex as ignition, orgasm as world-creation.
Theme: Desire as ascension.

V. AGE THREE: THE ONE (AIR)

Book Three: The Divine Orgy

Prologue: A palace of winds, filled with laughter.
Chapter Cycle:
1. Mawu-Lisa enters—two-faced, lover and deceiver.
2. The trickster orchestrates union of water, fire, and air.
3. Three-way intercourse: Maa’t + Merkaba + Mawu-Lisa.
4. From this act: a clone of Barbelo, already with child.
5. The trinity is conceived within—Sophia, Chronos, Abraxas.
Erotic Motif: Orgy as paradox, climax as betrayal and revelation.
Theme: Desire as contradiction.

VI. AGE FOUR: RETURN (EARTH)

Book Four: The Womb of Stone

Prologue: Soil, mountains, bodies of clay.
Chapter Cycle:
1. Barbelo-Child is born—mother and daughter at once.
2. Gaia breathes flesh into the divine womb.
3. Sex becomes bloodline, not myth; nations are seeded.
4. Desire is no longer infinite, but mortal—pregnancy, decay, inheritance.
Erotic Motif: Flesh, sweat, pregnancy, betrayal.
Theme: Desire as gravity.

VII. SERIES ARC

From Infinity to Flesh: Story begins in liquid possibility and ends in mortal earth.
Recursive Birth: Each age births the next; Gaia gestates Origine again, hinting at an eternal loop.
Symbols:
- The Sigil of Veil reappears in every epoch.
- Fire chariot, twin mask, stone womb—artifacts echo across stories.
Erotic Philosophy:
- Age One = Dissolution.
- Age Two = Ignition.
- Age Three = Orchestration.
- Age Four = Incarnation.

VIII. NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE

Intercut Structure: Like Cloud Atlas, each age begins in fragments, interwoven to mirror cycles of arousal and climax.
Reincarnation Motif: Figures reappear in new guises across ages (Kahina returns as Sophia, Orion as Chronos, etc.).
Erotic Dialectic: Every sex act is both physical union and metaphysical thesis, climaxing into transformation.

IX. THEMATIC RESONANCE

Schopenhauer: Will-to-sex is will-to-life.
Jung: Archetypes as anima/animus/shadow.
Hegel: Water (thesis), Fire (antithesis), Air (synthesis), Earth (embodiment).
Erotic Truth: Desire is not ornament; it is the prime engine of existence.

That’s the full skeleton: 4 Ages, 4 Books, infinite erotic echoes.

Would you like me to now expand this outline into a “Season One” breakdown—chapters and scenes for Book One: The Waters of Barbelo—so you see how the first Age would read in detail?