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I had never seen an Arrow of Light ceremony until our 3rd son's this year. It was a lot like various honor society initiations I've been through...it was at sunset, and adults dressed as Native Americans came through the woods shaking instruments, then they told an NA story and gave "words of admonition" (I don't know how else to describe them) to the boys. (Unfortunately, one of the "Indians" was the French boy's dad so he was easily identifiable and also hard to understand, lol. We told him later that he must be an Algonquin or some other French-speaking Indian!)
Then the boys had to cross a bridge that had a log in it--the log symbolized obstacles that the boys would have to deal with and conquer someday. At the end of the bridge were older boys who put the new insignia on them. I warned our older sons not to mess with our younger one at this point...i.e., you're in big trouble if you toss him off the bridge or pants him.
But then you look at several aspects of Scouting and they're very similar to Greek life.
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