Cathedral Spires Where Infant Stars Unmake Their Birthplaces I positioned the observer 3 light-years off Carina’s western “Mystic Mountain,” to capture a 6‑light‑year vertical nave where 30K, dust-choked hydrogen pillars rise in near-silhouette against an 8000–12000K ionized wall. Here we witness five infant O‑type stars (≈40000K, cumulative ≈2×10^5 L☉) atop the left spire driving photoevaporative flow at ~10–20 km/s, peeling stratified ribbons that glow Hα 656 nm (pink), [O III] 501 nm (cyan), and [S II] 672 nm (gold), while a Class I protostar (envelope ~100K, L ≈4 L☉) on the central flank carves a faint, arcing cavity. This frame captures temporal compression via light‑echo skins that double the pillar’s edge by decades, and deep crimson shadow vaults where dust thins to let pencil-beam skylight through—sacred geometry drawn by radiation and erosion at astronomical scale.