The Importance of Burial Rituals at the Plane of Jars

The jars are definitely associated with burial rituals, but it's hard to say whether they always have been or if they were originally built for a different purpose. The fact that we have three different types of burial ritual would indicate that these sites have maintained important ritual significance for quite some time. There's some folklore to suggest that they were used for decanting whiskey. Some other suggestions that human remains were decanted in them, and then once they were defleashed, that individuals were buried around the jars.