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Main All Myths Are True Discussion
Atlas and World turtles. There Myths so if there both true would atlas be standing on a turtle or holding up a world turtle?
Is this trope being horribly misued or am I just misunderstanding it? The description sounds like "Anything that's described as a myth in-story will turn out to be real", whereas you mostly see it used to mean "Ra and Loki are good buddies, they splay snooker with Cu Chulainn", which is more like Fantasy Kitchen Sink.
Since it's mentioned that the exceptions are more notable in this trope, it might be interesting to note that World of Warcraft subverts this. There's a lot of varying myths of the gods in the games, many of which are mutually exclusive. The one that comes to mind is the myth of the druids. While the night elves have a story of how they were the first druids, and the Tauren have a story of how they are the first druids. I'm pretty sure the night elves are the ones that have it right, but in either case, one story does have to be incorrect.
We should probably change the page image, but I don't know how to start an Image Pickin' Discussion.
Though I love Stargate SG 1, and think that we should still use that series as an example with whatever image we pick, the current page pic is essentially meaningless. All we see is a bunch of people standing before a Sword In The Stone, relying on the caption to explain where the "All Myths" part comes from. There's nothing in the image to even imply anything beyond Arthurian Mythology, and even that's not explicit, since the image doesn't even show it being true, just that the legend exists.
We need an image that somehow displays multiple myths so that you don't need to know the SG 1 series to understand it.
Perhaps a screen-cap from "Summit" or "Last Stand"? There was a meeting of System Lords in those episodes, and we can probably get an image of all the Goa'uld together, giving us Ba'al (Semitic), Kali (Hindu), Morrigan (Irish), Olokun (Yoruba) and Yu (China) together at once.