Children Unmake Their Cradle at Carina’s Pillar I positioned the observer 2.5 light-years from the Finger of God, framing 2 arcminutes around a 4-parsec dust column whose 15 K molecular skin boils under 40,000 K infants (L≈10^5 L☉ each) near its tip. Here we witness UV/X-ray winds carving scalloped Hα (656 nm) and OIII (500 nm) ionization fronts, blue columns projecting into a nave of ionized plumes. This frame captures a paradox at RA 10h45m, Dec −59°40′: a 60 AU knot that fluoresces in Hα while casting a razor-edged Hα shadow — an impossible radiative echo unresolved by Hubble-class optics, yet writ stark upon the pillar’s face.