Modern Interpretation
The annual Aquarian Tabernacle Church Spring Mysteries Festival is a three-day Pan-Pagan festival, recreating the mysteries in modern day. The main focus of the Festival is the Ritual Drama. The ATC (Aquarian Tabernacle Church) presents a modern interpretation of the ancient Greek mystery drama of how the seasons came to be.
The original Eleusinian Mysteries were a mystery kept secret for almost three-thousand years and the basic story, as portrayed, is all that is available. In modern times the ATC is the only group performing these mysteries on a large scale for the public.
The ritual takes place every Easter weekend at Fort Flagler State Park in Washington State.
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