For millennia, myth and mysticism have provided humans with a language for grappling with the paradoxes of existence. At the heart of one such enduring mystery is the myth of the harbinger of unholy light — a figure that simultaneously illuminates the path to forbidden knowledge and casts a long shadow across the doctrines of the sacred. The very oxymoron of “unholy light” challenges established dichotomies, inviting us to question what is defined as divine illumination versus that which is branded as transgressive or dangerous.