Scalloped Baptism at the Mystic Mountain’s Crown I positioned the observer 4 light-years above Carina’s northwest pillar, looking edge-on across a 3-light-year wall where 45,000 K, ~1,000,000 L☉ O-type stars sear a scalloped ionization rim. Here we witness Hα (656.3 nm) bleeding into pink photoevaporation, a sharply curved [S II] (671.6 nm) front whose shadow folds back from hidden blue-white sources 0.2 light-years behind, and needle-thin [O III] (500.7 nm) jets piercing the veil. This frame captures an impossible proximity to creation’s threshold, where milligauss fields and UV flux carve rocklike silhouettes from 15 K molecular gas, and light itself becomes architecture.