I know that people on Twitter are saying that you have to have an ethnic connection to Greece to practice Hellenismos and further that the Theoi lack the agency to interact with humans on an individual level but don’t believe them. They are not just wrong but profoundly ignorant as even a casual perusal of ancient literature will clearly show. As it happens I wrote a refutation of some of this malarkey back around 2002-03; funny how their arguments haven’t really changed much in all that time. But not as funny as people with mixed Slavic, Albanian and Turkic ancestry pushing blood quotas. (Yeah, as a lover of all things Greek I’ve read my Byzantine and Ottoman histories too; I know the dirty laundry you’d rather not be aired you hypocritical, hairy-knuckled race-baiters.) Traditions, customs, ceremonies, groups and spaces may all be fenced off as one pleases – but the Gods are for all, and they will call whom they will.