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1	->'''Yugi:''' So let me get this straight: According to this show, the Egyptian Gods are ''real''.\
2	'''Shadi:''' Yes.\
3	'''Yugi:''' But, doesn't that mean that all other religions are wrong? And the hokey Ancient Egypt religion is the only real one?\
4	'''Shadi:''' Yes.\
5	'''Yugi:''' Huh. Didn't see THAT one coming.\
6	'''Shadi:''' ''I'' did!
7	-->--''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''
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9	A fantasy setting with 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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11	If this is done to more than one mythology in one setting, then it is a CrossoverCosmology. If ''all'' of the stories are right, you have a FantasyKitchenSink and AllMythsAreTrue.
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13	!!Examples:
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18	* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', this turns out to be the case in-universe regarding both sides of the mythology regarding the Founding Titan Ymir. One side claims that she stumbled upon the very source of all organic material and became the first Titan in the world, and used her Titan to destroy the Marleyan people ruthlessly. Another side claims that she bestowed wealth upon humanity by paving the roads and building bridges through the power of her Titan. [[spoiler:Both are correct, but neither of them was ever done entirely out of her free will. She ''did'' encounter whatever supernatural creature turned her into a Titan, but it was while she was running away from persecutors. She ''did'' build bridges, pave roads, and kill Marleyan people, but only because she was a mindless slave and did as her master told her to.]] And just like the legends say, Ymir died 13 years after becoming a Titan. [[spoiler:Because she was slain, and then [[Myth/NorseMythology fed]] to her children.]]
19	* Though ''Manga/BokuGirl'' takes place in modern Japan and the only regular figure from Norse myth is Loki (plus her crow familiar), the whole pantheon is real and live in Asgard, even if they don't exactly fit the physical appearance (or even the genders) of the mythical figures.
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23	* In Creator/RowanAtkinson's [[http://youtu.be/Ut116mBuPpg "Welcome to Hell"]] he plays the Devil organizing new arrivals. As he splits them off to different groups, he announces "Christians. Ah yes, I'm sorry, I'm afraid the Jews were right." And when he gets to the atheists: "You must be feeling like a right bunch of nitwits."
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27	* ''ComicBook/TheChroniclesOfWormwood'' to Christianity, sort of. An Islamic terrorist is in Heaven with 72 virgins... that is, 72 screaming ''babies'' he has to take care of.
28	* The ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' series' ''[[Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls The Seven Crystal Balls]]'' and ''[[Recap/TintinPrisonersOfTheSun Prisoners of the Sun]]'' have a real-world voodoo curse in effect, albeit attributed to Incas.
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32	* FanFic/UchibiSasuke includes what seems to be traditional Asian mythology, as seen through the lens of the game VideoGame/{{Okami}}.
33	* ''Fanfic/NotCompletelyAltogetherHere'': Elphaba's father and sister are devout in their faith in the Unnamed God. They both scorn Lurline worshippers as pagan heathens. As Elphaba learns after dying, Lurline is the god-like figure that heads Oz's afterlife. Upon learning this, Elphaba wishes she could see her sister's face. [[spoiler:Nessarose]] has a hard time coming to terms with Lurline after [[spoiler:she's killed]]. This is later [[spoiler:subverted when an old man implied to be the Unnamed God appears]].
34	* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': {{Lampshaded}}, although [[Administrivia/NotAnExample not quite true]] for the [[Anime/YuGiOh source material]] itself. Aside from their version of Ancient Egyptian mythology [[TheThemeParkVersion bearing only cosmetic resemblance to the original]], later series have, among other things, the Aesir, who are basically the Norse God Cards.
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38	* ''Film/Constantine2005'' does this for [[ChristianityIsCatholic Roman Catholicism]], in contrast to the original ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' comic book, in which AllMythsAreTrue.
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42	* According to Louise Searl's short story ''Lightbringer'' (featured in ''Literature/TheDreamEatersAndOtherStories''), [[spoiler:Lucifer]] was real, but wasn't exactly what the stories tell us.
43	* ''Literature/ExpectingSomeoneTaller'', by Creator/TomHolt, to the Germanic pantheon.
44	* ''Literature/GoodOmens'', by Creator/NeilGaiman and Creator/TerryPratchett, does this with Christianity (mostly of a heavily Milton-influenced variety). Its SwitchingPOV protagonists include an angel, a demon, and the Antichrist. Of course, part of the joke is that the popular culture version of Christianity is rather closer to the truth than what any organized Christian religion actually believes, and even then it's not perfect.
45	* Creator/JRRTolkien's early drafts of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', published in ''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 Eressëa becomes England, Kortirion especially is identified as Warwick, and Elves still exist. The tales that [=Æ=]lfwine/Eriol is told are the true pre-history of the world and would later be 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 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.
46	* ''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy'' by Creator/CSLewis is a mixed example: it's explicitly Christian, but implies that Myth/ClassicalMythology is based on the celestial politics of our solar system, with the planets' [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Oyéresu]] inspiring the gods.
47	* Creator/RogerZelazny did this several times:
48	** ''Literature/BringMeTheHeadOfPrinceCharming'' (co-authored by Creator/RobertSheckley), to Christianity -- or its ThemeParkVersion. Mostly PlayedForLaughs.
49	** ''Literature/CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness'' to Myth/EgyptianMythology - in the far, far future.
50	** ''Literature/EyeOfCat'' to Myth/NativeAmericanMythology -- in a far future, though nowhere near as far as the previous entry.
51	** ''Literature/LordOfLight'' pretends to do this, using Myth/HinduMythology, except that the Gods are actually humans with psychic powers and advanced technology.
52	** Implied though not outright stated in the Literature/ChroniclesOfAmber series. A close variation on Camelot is explicitly shown, and the various Princes are archetypal enough that one could fit them into various pantheons in Shadow with just a bit of a twist: Julian would be a hunter god, Benedict would be a war god, Oberon would be the ruler god, and so on.
53	* Welsh mythology in ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising''. More or less.
54	* ''Literature/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 ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'', and Creator/NeilGaiman at least has placed ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'' within his AllMythsAreTrue 'verse.
55	* In Creator/DouglasAdams' ''Literature/TheLongDarkTeaTimeOfTheSoul,'' all the Norse gods and legends are true. Also involves a subversion of GodsNeedPrayerBadly, as Thor comments at one point that humanity created the gods, but just because we no longer need them doesn't mean they go away.
56	* ''Literature/TailchasersSong'' has a domestic cat CreationMyth about how a feline God called Meercat Allmother created the universe for cats. There are also various {{Just So Stor\|y}}ies about things like where humans came from (they're deformed cats cursed to act as servants for the superior cats for all eternity) and why dogs hate cats (a trickster cat once shamed a dog king). This all seems to be true because several of the legendary characters, such as the mystical Tangaloor Firefoot and his evil brother Grizraz Hearteater, are actual cats who the main characters meet.
57	* In ''Literature/TheNewJob'', Ukrainian folk-Catholicism is pretty heavily implied to be true, considering the pious main character's occasional experience of visions and miracles.
58	* ''Literature/GhostRoads'': Rose's story neatly ties together some common variations of the [[BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts hitchhiking ghost]] and phantom prom date UrbanLegends, and provides an explanation for the borrowed coat that shows up in so many of them.
59	* ''Franchise/TheShadowhunterChronicles'' are Christian, or perhaps generally Abrahamic, as it throws in elements from Judaism and Islam too. (Creator/CassandraClare is Jewish, for the record.) Also a FantasyKitchenSink, with things like vampires, werewolves and TheFairFolk incorporated in.
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63	* ''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). A season 5 episode even addresses this issue with a gathering of gods from other/more ancient religions being mad that the Christian apocalypse is going to end the world instead of their ''own'' religion's version of the apocalypse. Lucifer promptly [[CurbStompBattle slaughters them]], leaving Christian myth the only one relevant.
64	* ''Series/{{Cleverman}}'': Aboriginal mythology, called the Dreaming, turns out to be true. Waruu is versed in the Dreaming, enough that he recognizes important story related events around him.
65	** He identifies the creature that killed Uncle Jimmy by its work and its reason for showing up: "when things are out of balance".
66	** He also recognizes the story from Uncle Jimmy as an indication said uncle made his choice of who will succeed him as Cleverman.
67	** A story contained in Uncle Jimmy's journal tips Waruu off that sap from a particular tree [[spoiler:can counter the Cleverman's HealingFactor.]]
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71	* ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'' actually discusses this in "Inferno", a splatbook about demons. It's up to the Storyteller, in agreement with the players, ''which'' religion is true in regard to the myth of demons. This is a considerable improvement compared to ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'', in TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness, which based its demons upon Christian teachings, but at the same time insisted that this was not the same Christianity as that of the real world.
72	* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' normally assumes AllMythsAreTrue; however, the campaign in ''Scion: Ragnarok'' assumes a setting in which only Myth/NorseMythology is real. 2e's Companion gives advice on how to dial between one mythology being true and all myths being true for a setting.
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76	* The first seven ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' games are in a setting based on Myth/ClassicalMythology. WordOfGod said fairly early on that the world in total has a CrossoverCosmology, it just wasn't until ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' introduced elements of Myth/NorseMythology [[spoiler:and Tyr's vault contained treasures gathered from ''many'' mythologies]] that we actually saw such.
77	* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' and Myth/JapaneseMythology. If you ignore [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the earlier games]], anyway.
78	* ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' is this to Literature/TheBible and its Literature/BookOfRevelation.
79	* ''Videogame/BlazBlue'' is largely about Myth/JapaneseMythology. In particular, it's established that Amaterasu (aka the Master Unit) is the effective "God" of the verse.
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83	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': It has quite a lot of objects that are obviously beings from [[{{Myth/HebrewMythology}} Abrahamic Faith]], but almost none for any other mythology.
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87	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': The show relies heavily on Myth/NorseMythology and Scandinavian folklore. However, there are a few creatures from other mythologies, such as a Thunderbird (Native American) and Barghest (English).
88	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
89	** It combines this with AllMythsAreTrue. Every god of every religion ''exists'' in the setting, but Mormonism is the only faith that gets you into Heaven (God himself is Buddhist). Everyone else goes straight to Hell, though it seems only real sinners actually get punished and everyone else is more or less left alone.
90	** In "Best Friends Forever", that changes when they need more soldiers to join in the battle against Satan's legion of Hell, and Mormons aren't fighters. Considering that it's ''South Park'', [[StatusQuoIsGod things went back to the way they were]], not that soldiers aren't needed.
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