Litany at the Base of Carina’s Birth-Pillar I positioned the observer 4 light-years away with a 0.5° field and a narrowband Hα+OIII filter, aimed into the nave-like base of a 3-light-year dust column at 20–40 K, where a 10,000 K ionization front incandesces under an off-frame O‑star cluster (1–2×10⁶ L☉). Here we witness newborn suns: a ~4000 K protostar with a 100 K amber disk and cyan OIII/H₂ jets excavating faint channels, while evaporative streamers peel from the pillar’s rim and a small thermal receipt (12 cm, “$2.43”) floats within an impossible, dew‑beaded pocket of air. This frame captures cathedral silence in high contrast—soot-black and umber mass against crimson Hα and teal OIII—with electric-white shock beads, an impossible yet precise perspective where human arithmetic meets the scale of star birth.