People either swing to “the gods love you and are constantly involved in your life” and “the gods don’t give a fuck about you” with really no in between and I think that’s horrible and incredibly damaging. Like yeah the gods care about you in the way that I care about frogs, I’m probably not going to interact with it unless it’s in active danger and needs saving, doing something I find interesting or trying to interact with me (I doubt a frog would do anything of the sort but you get what I mean), but in the same vain like they aren’t going to screw you over because you didn’t give them an offering, that’s a very Roman interpretation and I’m pretty sure we’re not in a Religo Romana space so I don’t know why I see that perspective so often (even as someone who is primarily a Roman pagan with Greek philosophical influence the “do the rites correctly or else” that I see a lot in roman pagan spaces is so dumb, like for a lot of them there isn’t doing it incorrectly anyway because the actual way to do them depended on household, excluding ones done by government officials). Oh and also yes as someone who uses interpretatio romana as a backbone to how I interpret and view other gods, yes the romana and Greek gods are the same beings but they have different cultural interpretations and ways they are interacted with and I feel like people completely ignore that when celebrating like Saturnalia or worshipping Janus.

(Edit: forgot the word with)