History Main / AMythologyIsTrue

* ''{{Touhou}}'' and Japanese mythology. If you ignore [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the earlier games]], anyway.

A fantasy setting with the premise, or a premise, that one particular mythology is an approximation of the truth, usually with some plot-relevant differences. This is often a mythology associated with a mainstream religion.

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** Also, the Roman gods exist as well, just as alter-egos to the Greek ones. There's evidence that the two series exist in the same universe, and that ''all'' pantheons exist (ignoring each other for the most part) creating a kind of FantasyKitchenSink.

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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is an interesting case which can't decide whether it's this trope or AllMythsAreTrue. Earlier seasons seem to imply the latter, with the characters explicitly stating that "almost all cultures" have lore of some kind about the MonsterOfTheWeek, with only slight variations. However, later seasons seem to run on the basis of Christianity (with God, angels, and Lucifer).

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* ''Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming'', by RobertSheckley and RogerZelazny, to Christianity -- or its ThemeParkVersion. Mostly PlayedForLaughs.

* [[JRRTolkien Tolkien's]] early drafts of ''{{The Silmarillion}}'', published in the Lost Tales I&II, are a clever inversion of this: Through a series of events and battles that are echoed mainly in Norse and Finnish mythology [[spoiler: Middle-earth becomes our world. Tol Eressea becomes England, Kortirion especially is identified as Warwick, and Elves still exist. The tales that Aelfwine/Eriol is told are the true pre-history of the world and later fictionalized among humans.]] This was toned down significantly to the point of near-abandonment in later drafts, though the fading of the Elves and the gradual dominion of humans remains a prevalent theme. Also impossible to get rid of completely: Some [[IncrediblyLamePun cunning linguists]] pointed out that a huge number of Tolkien's Eldarin word roots are built to act as predecessors of reconstructed Indo-European, theoretically transporting the idea of early humans using language they were taught by the Elves into the real world. See Faramir's quote on all speech of the world being Elvish in origin.

* Alan Garner's ''Literature/TheWeirdstoneOfBrisingamen'' does this for a mixed bag of Celtic, Nordic, Irish, Welsh and English myths including The Morrigan, King Arthur, Merlin, Ragnarok and the Norse svart-alfar and lios-alfar.

* Lampshaded in ''WebOriginal/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''.

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* The ''{{Tintin}}'' series' ''The Seven Crystal Balls'' and ''Prisoners of the Sun'' have a real-world voodoo curse in effect, albeit attributed to Incas.

* The film {{Constantine}} does this for [[ChristianityIsCatholic catholicism]]. In contrast to the original ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} comic book where AllMythsAreTrue.

* ''JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' at the very least presents as true English legends concerning TheFairFolk, and Merlin is referenced as being a real person. At least, because in the story collection ''The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories'', there is a {{Crossover}} with ''{{Stardust}}'', and NeilGaiman at least has placed ''{{Stardust}}'' within his AllMythsAreTrue 'verse.

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* ''BringMeTheHeadOfPrinceCharming'', by RobertSheckley and RogerZelazny, to Christianity -- or its ThemeParkVersion. Mostly PlayedForLaughs.

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* ''Expecting Someone Taller'', by TomHolt, to the Germanic pantheon
* ''GodOfWar'' to {{Greek mythology}}
** Although WordOfGod has said it's a case of AllMythsAreTrue - every other god and pantheon exists and Kratos is going to kill them all.
* ''TheChroniclesOfWormwood'' to Christianity
* In ''SouthPark'', the Mormons are right
** In the episode "Best Friends Forever", that changed when they need more soldiers to join in the battle against Satan's legion of Hell, and Mormons aren't fighters. Considering it's ''South Park'', things went back to the way it was not that soldiers aren't needed.

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' to ancient GreekMythology

* Lampshaded in ''WebOriginal/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''.

* The film {{Constantine}} does this for [[ChristianityIsCatholic catholicism]]. In contrast to the original ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} comic book where AllMythsAreTrue.

* ''JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' at the very least presents as true English legends concerning TheFairFolk, and Merlin is referenced as being a real person. At least, because in the story collection ''The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories'', there is a {{Crossover}} with ''{{Stardust}}'', and NeilGaiman at least has placed ''{{Stardust}}'' within his AllMythsAreTrue 'verse.
* The ''{{Tintin}}'' series' ''The Seven Crystal Balls'' and ''Prisoners of the Sun'' have a real-world voodoo curse in effect, albeit attributed to Incas.

** Also by Neil Gaiman (but not Terry Pratchett) was AnansiBoys, focusing on the concept that West African mythology (and all named spiders and panthers that go along with it) do exist in the modern day. Unless they're dead.
*** AnansiBoys takes place in the same continuity as AmericanGods, which makes the same assumption about ''all'' mythology-some gods have died, others have wandered off and forgotten who they were, but all of them existed at one point, with greater or lesser degrees of being anything like the way myths paint them.

* The film {{Constantine}} does this for [[ChristianityIsCatholic catholicism]]. In contrast to the original {{Hellblazer}} comic book where AllMythsAreTrue.

* Lampshaded in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}''.

* [[JRRTolkien Tolkien's]] early drafts of {{The Silmarillion}}, published in the Lost Tales I&II, are a clever inversion of this: Through a series of events and battles that are echoed mainly in Norse and Finnish mythology [[spoiler: Middle-earth becomes our world. Tol Eressea becomes England, Kortirion especially is identified as Warwick, and Elves still exist. The tales that Aelfwine/Eriol is told are the true pre-history of the world and later fictionalized among humans.]] This was toned down significantly to the point of near-abandonment in later drafts, though the fading of the Elves and the gradual dominion of humans remains a prevalent theme. Also impossible to get rid of completely: Some [[IncrediblyLamePun cunning linguists]] pointed out that a huge number of Tolkien's Eldarin word roots are built to act as predecessors of reconstructed Indo-European, theoretically transporting the idea of early humans using language they were taught by the Elves into the real world. See Faramir's quote on all speech of the world being Elvish in origin.

* ''{{Supernatural}}'' is an interesting case which can't decide whether it's this trope or AllMythsAreTrue. Earlier seasons seem to imply the latter, with the characters explicitly stating that "almost all cultures" have lore of some kind about the MonsterOfTheWeek, with only slight variations. However, later seasons seem to run on the basis of Christianity (with God, angels, and Lucifer).
** A season 5 episode even addresses this issue with a gathering of gods from other/more ancient religions being mad that the Judeo-Christian apocalypse is going to end the world instead of their ''own'' religion's version of the apocolypse.

* ''PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' to ancient GreekMythology

* ''GoodOmens'' to Christianity (mostly of a heavily Milton-influenced variety)

* TheChroniclesOfWormwood to Christianity

* Lampshaded in ''YugiohAbridged''