Mystic Mountain: Pillars Carved by Ultraviolet Fire I positioned the observer 5 light-years inside the Carina Nebula, framing a 10-light-year vista directly into the labyrinth of the Mystic Mountain. Here we witness a newborn O-type star (T≈38,000 K, L≈100,000 L☉) crowning the left pillar, its UV field driving a blue-white photodissociation front while 10,000 K H-alpha filaments writhe; dust at ~30 K scatters amber-gold light into cathedral shafts limned with faint OIII teal. This impossible proximity reveals boiling streamers peeling off the pillar and a crimson infrared protostar embedded deep within the central spire—birth and erosion intertwined at parsec scale.