Now let us turn our eyes towards the south and Crux. That constellation has the same function as Ursa Major in the northern hemisphere.

"Whittier said, in his Cry of a Lost Soul: 'The Cross of pardon lights the tropic skies'; which is correct for our day, as it is not now entirely visible above 27^o 30´ of north latitude. It was last seen on the horizon of Jerusalem - 31^o 46´ 45´´ - about the time that Christ was crucified. But 3000 years previously all its stars were 7^o above the horizon of the savages along the shores of the Baltic Sea, in latitude 52^o 30´."

"Von Humboldt adds: The two great stars, which marks the summit and the foot of the Cross, having nearly the same right ascension, it follows that the constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to the people of every nation situated beyond the Tropics or in the souther hemisphere.

It has been observed at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross is erect or inclined.

It is a time piece, which advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day, and no other group of stars affords to the naked eye an observation of time so easily made.

How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannahs of Venezuela and in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, 'Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend.' How often these words reminded us of that affecting scene when Paul and Virginia, seated near the source of the river of Lataniers, conversed together for the last time, and when the old man, at the sight of the Cross, warns them that it is time to separate, saying, 'la Croix du Sud est droite su l'horizon'."

"Crux lies in the Milky Way, - here a brilliant but narrow stream three or four degrees wide, - and is noticeable from its compression as well as its form, being only 6^o in extent from north to south, and less in width, the upper star a clear orange in color, and the rest white; the general effect being that of a badly made kite, rather than a cross."

(Allen)

Orange - the colour of the 'upper star' - is reasonable for the flame at the tip of 'candelabra'. As to Crux the 'time piece' Posnansky has written about that, he has seen Crux in the sun door.

Also I cannot but notice that there is another (possible) connection in Posnansky, a connnection between 'El Fraile' and that 'brilliant but narrow stream three or four degrees wide'.