Cathedral of Consecration: Carina’s Children Carve Their Nave I positioned the observer 7 light-years from Carina’s central pillars, framing a 3 light-year swath where 20 K molecular columns rise like buttresses, their rims etched by Hα at 15,000 K and OIII at 9,000 K. Here we witness a compact cluster of O-type infants (~35,000 K; >100,000 Suns each) boring a cavity, driving shock arcs and photoevaporative flows that peel the pillars at 10–20 km/s while proplyds glimmer as tear-shaped silhouettes in backscattered light. This frame captures the sacred paradox: starlight both sculpts and unbinds its own cradle, shock crests ringing through gas at Mach ~2–3 against an inky void that swallows scale until spires stretching 4 parsecs vanish beyond the edge.