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The founders of most general GLOs, who were basically kids themselves, seemed so much more educated relative to college students of today. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, if you were a college student or even a high school student, you were going to get classics and mythology in your curriculum. (As recently as the '50s at my mom's boarding school back, you could take Greek if you did well enough in Latin. My mom, unfortunately, did not like to study and got a 4 in Latin one grading period. A 4.)
Back in the day, putting together a ritual must've been not only fun but relatively effortless because you had this basic shared well of info from which to draw and adapt.
Without trying to be nosy or imply any superiority of old vs. new, I wonder what cultural allusions have inspired the founders of GLOs from the past decade or two.
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