History Main / AMythologyIsTrue

** It seems that ''neither'' the angels nor demons nor pagan gods are truly "gods" but rather creatures that have been worshiped as such over time. Some angels mentioned that they came from elsewhere and took over from the old gods; Death claims to be as old as God.

* 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 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 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.

* The ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' actually discusses this in "Inferno", a splatbook about demons. It's up to the Storyteller ''which'' religion is true in regard to the myth of demons, as long as the players are cool with it. This is a considerable improvement compared to ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'', which says that "demons are based on Christian lore, but the Christian lore of OWOD is not the Christian lore of RealLife".

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' and Myth/JapaneseMythology. If you ignore [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the earlier games]], anyway.

* 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 vault contained treasured gathered from ''many'' mythologies]]) that we actually saw such.

* In Creator/RowanAtkinson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFGrQMD6Uqc "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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* 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 [[UsefulNotes/NorseMythology fed]] to her children.]]

* ''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.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' normally assumes AllMythsAreTrue; however, the campaign in ''Scion: Ragnarok'' assumes a setting in which only Myth/NorseMythology is real.

** 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 apocalypse.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' combines this with AllMythsAreTrue. Every god of every religion ''exists'' in the setting, but Mormonism is the only faith that gets you into Heaven. Everyone else goes straight to Hell, though it seems only real sinners actually get punished and everyone else is more or less left alone.

* ''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.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has quite a lot of objects that are obviously beings from Literature/TheBible, but almost none for any other mythology.

* Lampshaded in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', although [[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.

* The first seven ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'' 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 vault contained treasured gathered from ''many'' mythologies]]) that we actually saw such.

** In the episode "Best Friends Forever", that changed when they needed more soldiers to join in the battle against Satan's legion of Hell, and Mormons aren't fighters. Considering that it's ''South Park'', things went back to the way they were, not that soldiers aren't needed.

* In Creator/RowanAtkinson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFGrQMD6Uqc "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."

* ''ComicBook/TheChroniclesOfWormwood'' to Christianity.

* ''Creator/RickRiordan'''s works pretty much all feature this trope:
** ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' to Myth/ClassicalMythology. Percy Jackson is a son of Poseidon who, along with his friends, has to prevent the titan Kronos from destroying the world.
** ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', the SequelSeries, blends in Roman mythology, introducing the Roman alter egos of the Greek Gods and Camp Jupiter, a Roman parallel to Camp Half-Blood.
** ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' to Myth/EgyptianMythology. Carter and Sadie Kane run into just about every major Egyptian god in the pantheon. It's a SharedUniverse with ''Percy Jackson'', so while AMythologyIsTrue in the context of each individual work, it becomes a CrossoverCosmology at the meta-level.
** ''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard'' to Myth/NorseMythology. Magnus dies and finds himself in Hotel Valhalla and is a demigod of Frey. He's a cousin of Annabeth from ''PercyJackson'', so it's also a SharedUniverse.

* 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 vault contained treasured gathered from ''many'' mythologies]]) that we actually saw such.

* 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 the eighth game introduced elements of Myth/NorseMythology that we actually saw such.

* Lampshaded in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', although [[NotAnExample not quite true]] for the [[Anime/YuGiOh source material]] itself. Aside from their version of Ancient Egyptian [[TheThemeParkVersion bearing only cosmetic resemblance to its mythology]], later series have, among other things, the Aesir, who are basically the Norse God Cards.