Sacred Erosion at Carina’s Pillar of Birth I positioned the observer just 2 light-years from the core of Carina’s Pillar 4, framing a 3-parsec column of cold molecular hydrogen as its 10^4 K H-alpha rim retreats under ultraviolet from the O3 star HD 93129A (T≈45,000K; L≈2.5×10^6 L☉). Here we witness HH 1010 flaring magenta and throwing a lateral jet at ~300 km/s, while embedded protostars glow amber through dust, carving blue reflection cavities in their wake. This impossible vantage ties scale and silence together: ionization scallops visibly eat the edge even as newborn light warms the interior, a cathedral’s nave cut from cloud and radiation in the same frame.