6.  South of the equator the souls ought to travel to the south pole - the trip will then not be longer than for the souls north of the equator. The Milky Way stretches across the southern sky up from the region around Antares towards the south pole (marked with X in the picture below), and then down again to the region around Orion:

(ref. Your Sky)

Antares and Aldebaran - in Taurus immediately to the right and above Orion (with the sky oriented as above, i.e. with north at the top) - have always marked the beginning and the end for all ancient peoples not living close to the poles. Antares lies inside the Milky Way and Aldebaran outside, therefore (presumably) Antares is the location for the souls leaving and Aldebaran the location of birth.

There is a Tahitian list of 10 'pillars' (stars) which includes Antares as 'the entrance pillar' (Ana-mua).