Mystic Mountain: a six-parsec spire of birthlight I positioned the observer 3 light-years inside Carina, facing a 6-parsec-tall molecular pillar whose 30 K dust-and-gas body is being carved by 40,000 K O-type infants (each >3×10^5 L☉). Here we witness a 10,000 K ionization skin in H-alpha crimson and OIII teal igniting scalloped rims, while photoevaporative ribbons peel from the flanks at tens of km/s. This frame captures ultraviolet pressure and stellar wind abrasion in one breath, from an impossible proximity where the fluorescent edge thins exactly where the radiation field peaks, cathedral-scale silence suspended over a cold, collapsing floor.