Synonymous with the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the three day ritual is believed to have been practiced by ancient adepts seeking enlightenment. After training for a year to be able to survive the ordeal, the acolyte would imbibe a hefty narcotic brew which would render them unconscious for 72 hours or thereabouts. During this time they were isolated within a granite sarcophagus or other dense silicate environment. The magi of old believed that this facilitated ingress to the underworld without actually having to die. The adept could then learn great truths from the spirits of the underworld and return to the physical plane armed with sacred knowledge otherwise considered unobtainable.
There is an opinion that this ritual was the actual purpose of all the megalithic sarcophagi found in Egypt. This ties in with the theory that the dynastic Egyptians had nothing to do with the phenomenal stone works and had in fact simply inherited them from the previous 'Old Kingdom' culture. If this theory has merit then it appears that Giza may well have been a place where 'men went to become gods'. The same has been said of Puma Punku in Bolivia, which implies that the Black Sea diaspora theory is indeed valid.
This practice seems to have been utilised in other parts of the stone age world. The stone chambers in North America which have been categorised as 'settler root stores' are exceedingly unlikely to have been anything of the sort. Instead the legends of giants sitting in them at sunset smoking viper venom through stone pipes would be more in line with the narcotic induced, dense silicate isolated resurrection ritual. Curiously, the total length of the stone walls in between the stone chambers of New Hampshire and surrounding areas adds up to 230,000 miles. This would be the same as the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The precise relevance of this highly incongruous data remains somewhat of a mystery. What we do know is that many cultures in antiquity were utterly obsessed with alignment and numerology. It is in essence where the saying 'as above, so below' originates.