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Whenever a fictional story involves non-Christian themes, a western adaptation will emphasize the elements most familiar to followers of Abrahamic religions, most usually Christianity. At times, they will be totally rewritten to turn all of the members of the religion into direct analogues of Christian figures. In mythologies without a "God of Evil", the least likable deity (usually the one in charge of death, fire, or occasionally winter) will be Flanderized into such a figure who is a direct analogue of Satan. Any depiction of the afterlife will be transformed into either Heaven or Hell. The chief male deity will always be a stand-in for God, with a long beard and omnibenevolent qualities for bonus points. Servants of the chief male deity may be turned into angelic beings, or other gods will seem so subservient they may as well be angels, despite them being at each other's throats in most mythologies. For their part, demigods and heroes, who in mythology were usually busy solving their own troubles and killing minor monsters, might receive here the unenviable task to save the whole humanity, especially from their own sins. A Crucified Hero Shot can be optional. That is, it takes a real-life religion and turns it into Crystal Dragon Jesus. May either be a form of Viewers Are Morons or bad research, depending on how much the writers understood the original religion. It should be noted that this has happened a number of times historically, as it was both a useful resource and an inevitable point of view. As proselytizing sects spread into new regions, they often incorporate existing beliefs into their canon in order to make the new religion more palatable to others. For example, the medieval story of the hermit Josaphat (not to be mistaken with the King Jehoshaphat of Judea, or the 17th-century martyr St. Josaphat) was a Christianized version of the life of Gautama Buddha (with "Bodhisattva" mutating into "Josaphat"). On the opposite end, polytheistic cultures "converted" to Christianity simply transferred the worship of individual gods to the saints that most resembled them (in some cases, the old pagan gods were remade into saints). The Catholic church in particular got a lot of mileage out of this, and seeing some processions for some saints (in e.g. Latin America), it's not hard at all to imagine what the religious customs prior to Christianity may have looked like. See also Anime Catholicism, Everybody Hates Hades, Satanic Archetype, Nuns Are Mikos, Faux Symbolism, The Theme Park Version, Sadly Mythtaken, Crystal Dragon Jesus, Messianic Archetype. Contrast Not Using the "Z" Word and Church of Saint Genericus. This will often include a Mythology Upgrade. |
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King Conchobhar, of the Ulster Cycle and the Exile of the Sons of Usna, finds the petrified brain of Mesgegra, king of Leinster, embedded in his head after a battle. The healers are not able to remove it but sew up the wound and tell him that he'll survive as long as he doesn't become excited or over-exert himself. Seven reasonably peaceful years later, "Conchobar is told of the death of Christ, and becomes so angry that the brain bursts from his head, and he dies. The blood from the wound baptizes him as a Christian, and his soul goes to heaven". Conchobhar is also supposedly the exact same age as Jesus, never mind that the story takes place several centuries before St. Patrick even arrived in Ireland. None of this adds up based on what is known about Gaelic Ireland; he'd have to be at least 18 years of age to marry, in which case he would have gone through several wives by the time of Deirdre's birth, and she'd have to be 15 to marry, thus making him at least 35 when she reached that age and at least 40 when he took her hostage. And he lived to fight at least one or two major wars. There is no way that he could have done all of this within the lifetime of Christ, who was supposed to be 33 to 37 when he died. And that his blood "baptizes him" does not excuse the fact that he committed many atrocities in his life, often for his own selfish reasons. | |
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Wonder Woman (2011): The Greek gods traditionally didn't much resemble their mythological versions in the Wonder Woman mythos but the New 52 merrily strapped a bunch of Christian terms and iconography to them. For a few examples Hades—both the realm and the god—is referred to as Hell, despite the term originating in Norse mythology before being borrowed by Christians, Olympus is called Heaven unironically despite being far from any kind of paradise no matter who is currently on the throne (though generally in non-Christian religions Heaven is just another name for "that place above Earth where the gods live"), and the First Born wears a crown of cruel thorns and is treated as a kind of Anti-Christ figure. | |
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Kid Icarus: Uprising: Does a similar adaptation of the Greek Myths as Disney's Hercules which isn't surprising considering the series is set in Angel Land. Hades is depicted as a satanic figure with no redeeming qualities, and the Underworld is depicted as Hell run by Always Chaotic Evil Grim Reaper figures. That said, the Big Good Palutena isn't quite the saint some would make her out to be, though she's still the most benevolent god out there, and Viridi would happily murder the entire human race, though not unjustifiably so, if she didn't have Pit keeping an eye on her. | |
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In Gunga Din, the villains are worshipers of Kali, who is described as "The Goddess of Blood," who smiles at warfare, torture, and human sacrifice. Her cult is a Religion of Evil that murders indiscriminately, as many as thirty thousand people per year! To rub in the salt, the movie is prefaced with a line saying that the depiction of her and her worship is "based on historical fact." While Kali does have a terrifying aspect (a necklace of skulls and hands full of weapons, granted, is pretty alarming), she is just another aspect of a greater feminine deity, and her realm is time and natural change as much as righteous destruction. | |
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Dragon Age: In-universe. Shartan was an elven rebel leader who fought beside Andraste just to free his people from the Imperium. However, The Chantry teachings downplay the "fought to free his people" part to focus on the "fought for Andraste" part, and depict him as a true believer and disciple who fought for the Bride of their Maker in order to serve their Maker. When they don't deny he ever existed. | |
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Disney's adaptation of Hercules, featuring Hades as Satan, Zeus as God, Hercules as Jesus, and the other Olympians as angels. To protect family values, Zeus's rampant womanizing is ignored and Hercules is made his son with Hera, who was poisoned by Hades with mortality. Hera is made a loving mother and wife to follow suit, as opposed to the Arch-Enemy she was to Hercules in the myths (the movie does nothing to rectify Hera's status as Zeus's sister, however, outside of just not mentioning it). Hades' characterization is the most obvious shift away from mythology, as he was one of the few gods who merely did his job and hardly messed with anyone (his abduction of Persephone not withstanding). However, his unpopularity with the other gods does have truth to it—the Greeks did respect Hades, but greatly feared him for what he represented and hated to even speak his name. Early on in the film, Hercules decides to try to ask for guidance from Zeus. He does so by going to a statue of Zeus and kneeling in prayer, in a very Christian manner. Though such things might have been part of Greek religious ceremonies, it's very unlikely a worshipper would have done only that and expected anything to come out of it—instead, they would have brought something to sacrifice to the gods, typically food or a live animal. |
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Hellboy sort of does this with Hecate - while in the Classical world she was a goddess of various things including witches, here, following in the footsteps of the early Christians, she's all witches all the time (also one vampire) and in Hellboy's world all witches are evil and servants of Hell. She's also very invested in tempting Hellboy to bring about the apocalypse. Later on, though, she self-defines as a more Lovecraftian amoral goddess who just wants to bring about the apocalypse because it's her nature to do so - less Satanic, but still far more malevolent than the mythological Hecate. | |
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Age of Empires II: Just like most military units tend to look Western European, despite civilizations coming from all over Eurasia (and also America and Africa in the expansions), religion in the game is superficially Christian and in particular, Catholic: The religious building is called a "Monastery" and the units it produces are "monks", even in Muslim and pre-Columbian American cultures. Excluding the Americans, all monks wear priestly robes, have tonsure, and carry a crossier and a big, Western-style book clearly intended to be a Bible. They also make a Gregorian-like chant when they convert enemy units to your side and its icon is two hands placed together. Several religious technologies have Christian-themed names and icons such as "Sanctity" (golden chalice), "Redemption" (light coming down from heaven), "Atonement" (kneeling man with his hands together), "Illumination" (sunlight over an open book), "Theocracy" (rosary over an open book), and "Faith" (a Medieval icon... of Jesus himself). |
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In The Simpsons, Lisa eventually becomes disillusioned with the Protestant Christian denomination she was raised in and embraces Buddhism as an alternative path to God, but it's a Running Gag that she doesn't really treat it differently, praying to "Lord Buddha" as a Christian would pray to God, referring to Namuche as "the Buddhist Satan," and so on. | |
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Hades (and occasionally Ares) in the Justice League cartoon was also painted as Satan, or a reasonable facsimile. Even more explicitly, Justice League Unlimited showed Tartarus as an analogy to Hell to the point that it actually had demons that shirked in fear from Hawkgirl when they mistook her for an angel. Hawkgirl muddies the waters a bit when, a moment later, she hopes they don't run into any smart denizens of Tartarus. |
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The main series of Shin Megami Tensei takes this very literally. When the Earth was young, according to Echidna and Mem Aleph, it was ruled by all sorts of pantheons with their own adepts and followers. At one point, though, the Abrahamic God grew in power and overthrew all others, casting them down into lower astral planes (Atziluth in the original stories, Makai in current continuity) and turning them (and their cults) into demons. For example, Astaroth is literally a corrupted and demonized form of Ishtar... while more "acceptable" pagan gods like Thor have thrown their lot in with YHVH, choosing to become mere lackeys in order to prevent their own destruction or similar literal demonization. Only when a breach opens between our world and the lower planes (the Demon Summoning Program, the Conception, the Schwarzwelt) do the "demons" get the chance to fight back to regain their old power. | |
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Believe it or not, the Cthulhu Mythos fell prey to this very early on, as August Derleth, who arguably rescued H. P. Lovecraft from total obscurity, attempted to shape the Mythos into a coherent Shared Universe, in an essay, framed it as a struggle between a good and evil pantheon, the former represented by Nodens, an actual minor deity from real life mythology, who had a cameo in one of Lovecraft's stories. This did not catch on. Note, however, that there are still writers who like Derleth's idea of having two factions of gods fight each other, even if they reject the idea of painting those two factions as good and evil. |
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Discussed in Vikings. The Christian priest Athelstan is kidnapped from his church in Britain, and forced to live alongside the vikings. Although he stays loyal to his religion, he couldn't help but notice the similarities between the crucifixion of Jesus and the story of Odin hanging from Yggdrassil. He becomes troubled by those notions, and eventually accepts both religions. And even then he stays troubled, because a true Christian may not worship any other god. | |
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Part of the Sovereign Host's success in spreading in Eberron is noted to be their ability to pull off Hijacked By The Host and integrate the traditions of minor religions into their own ("Oh, your ways are fine. By the way, we call Deity X of your pantheon Dol Dorn..."). | |
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In American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, Journey to the West is hijacked by Jesus up the wazoo. Apparently, the Monkey King and the monk's entourage were the Three Wise Men bringing gifts to the baby Jesus. Also, the numerous Heavenly Hosts who populate the story are angels or demons or such, and are all ruled by Tze-Yo-Tzun, aka He Who Is, one of the names of God. This is specifically footnoted. This was completely deliberate on the author's part: the blending of religions reflects the blending of cultures that produces Jin, and that he needs to accept in himself. The story is a very Asian-American story, and the author blended elements of Asian culture and American culture (including his own religion — Christianity). | |
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Part of the final plan in Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus involves influencing the pre-existing Mesoamerican religion in order to 1) eliminate the practice of human sacrifice, and 2) prevent religious conflict when they come into contact with Renaissance Christianity. The basic gist of how they pull it off is to introduce a new prophet that tells the natives to look for a people across the sea who have discovered a divine figure whose blood-sacrifice permanently sates the requirement for human sacrifice. | |
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SCP Foundation: Inverted and played for cosmic and religious horror by SCP-3004 ("Imago"). SCP-3004 is an Irish cicada god once worshipped by a particularly large and gruesome druidic cult. When the followers were converted to Christianity in the late 1700s, the resulting turn of faith and metaphysical confusion scrambled the deity's mind and now it is convinced that it is the Judeo-Christian God. In fact it may have eaten and usurped Him. It warps Christian practices into a Religion of Evil which involves Animalistic Abominations and ritual self-mutilation, it is completely insane and unaware of concepts like metaphors and mortality, and worst of all it is trying to break through into our reality. In that event the Foundation's contingency is to completely erase Christianity from the historical record in an attempt to starve it. | |
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Since the ancient Norse never wrote their myths down, the earliest written documents were attempts to Christianize the heathens, by turning the Norse gods into a Christian pantheon, by making the gods out to be demonic, or simply by calling them clever mortals. The portrayal of the gods in Gesta Danorum is a transparent example of the latter. Odin's self-sacrifice to gain knowledge (by hanging himself on the World Tree for nine days) bears a striking resemblance to the Crucifixion. In particular, note that Odin sacrificed himself to himself — and since conventional Christianity interprets Jesus as an incarnation of God, the Crucifixion thus entailed the Christian God likewise sacrificing himself to himself. However, there are no reported Viking activities in the area of Israel at the time, and all reported versions of that myth are from after Christianity became a thing in Europe, so it may also be a case of the Vikings trying to hijack Christian stories, instead of the other way. It may also be just a coincidence, as deaths by hanging were a common punishment in real life, same as crucifixion, but the part of the god having his side torn by a pike seems too specific and suggests an influence in either way. Although, that could again just be coincidence - using a spear to prod the side of a hanged / crucified person was used as a way to check they were dead before they were cut down: if they reacted, they were still alive and would be left up there longer.note it should also be noted that there were Vikings who worked for Christian rulers all throughout the 8th, 9th & 10th Centuries when their civilization was at its most prominent. The idea that they hated Christians reflexively is a complete myth. This could go a long way to explaining some of the uncanny similarities in mythologies. Though to be completely fair, it's not like Christianity originated all of these ideas. the idea of a god dying for the benefit of the community and then being resurrected was hardly a new one by the time Christianity came around. |
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When dealing with Ancient Greece in The Knight's Tale, Chaucer is mostly accommodating of the fact that they were pre-Christian, but does have some small slips like having them observe Sundays. | |
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Of all things, Planescape had very subtle hints of this. The setting incorporated both fictional and real-world mythologies, including the deities of Hinduism and Buddhism (but not the Abrahamic religions). However, at least some of the factions were open to the possibility that all these 'gods' were fake, just powerful beings, and a single real god (or more) might exist above them. The series also favored the terms 'powers', 'celestials' and 'fiends' over 'gods', 'angels' and 'demons'. Given that this only occurred in 2nd Edition D&D, it may have been a response to moral panic about the role-playing game by Christian Fundamentalists in the 80's. Considering some of the other ideas Planescape brought in, however, it probably didn't help much. |
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Final Fantasy Tactics seems to do this with the suspiciously-Catholic-like church in Glabados concerned with the worship of Saint Ajora. As the plot progresses, however, the idea becomes the target of Deconstruction, starting with Cu Culainn as a Sinister Minister, and is ultimately subverted at the end of the game, when the nature of St. Ajora herself is revealed. Then it becomes either a Path of Inspiration or a Corrupt Church, depending on the individual closeness to the Secret Circle of Secrets of any given member of the church. It should be noted that this is not a Western work, but also that the Glabados church -is- the only game in town, so their brand of monotheism appears to be the norm. | |
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The Marvel Universe version of the Norse gods follow suit, with Thor = Jesus, Odin = God, Loki = Lucifer, and Surtur = Satan. Surtur's portrayal is severely contrary to mythology, where he merely fulfills a cosmic role and barely has any personality; in the comics, he actively tries to bring about Ragnarok instead of waiting. The whole devil look and feud with Odin are exclusive to the comics. When Marvel got the rights to Angela, a Judeo-Christian angel from Spawn, they reinvented her as a Thor character and added angels to their version of Norse mythology. Though in this case the Christian aspects are only surface-deep; Marvel keeps the words "Angel" and "Heaven" (as "Heven") and the Gold and White Are Divine look, but beyond that these angels are nothing like the Biblical version (they're completely mercenary and only value material goods, and they hate Odin and Asgardians in general). |
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Dungeons & Dragons publishes a "Deities and Demigods" supplement with most editions. While some of the entries are original pantheons made up from scratch by the company, there are also sections on Egyptian, Greek, and Norse mythology. | |
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Most mummy movies, including those of The Mummy Trilogy, portray gods such as Anubis and Seth as Expys of Satan. In reality, Anubis was a protector and judge of the dead and all round cool guy when compared to some of his sibling gods, while Seth was originally god of the deserts of lower Egypt-the legends of his scheming and murder of Osiris is a later myth. In fact, the statues found next to Tutankhamun, called Shabts, would be more appropriate. Of course, while it's true that Anubis was considered a kindly protector whose main concern was making sure souls made it safely to the afterlife, he's also the guy who checked if your soul was worthy of the next life and tossed it to Ammut as a snack if it wasn't... In this way, he is more like the Christian God than Satan, as on Judgement Day, he is supposed to throw all sinners into the Lake of Fire. | |
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This isn't the first time Hades' image was hijacked. Disney's The Goddess of Spring, a precursor to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, made the merger between Satan and Hades even more blatant. | |
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Stargate SG-1 at various points: An arc theme in the series is the slow discovery of the Jaffa that their masters the Goa'uld are not gods, but tyrants posing as gods. All well and good, but a big part of it is usually the discovery that the Goa'uld are not omnipotent or omniscient (for example, when Teal'c disobeys Apophis behind his back and finds Aphophis does not know about it) — even though those traits were never associated with the pagan gods the Goa'uld play the roles of. Possibly justified, in that the Goa'uld were arrogant enough to have added those traits to their claims on godhood after adopting the names and personas of pagan figures. In one episode, SG-1 come upon a small population of people who had developed from ancient Norsemen (Vikings, if you will) into what was basically a 17th century society. Instead of retaining their original pantheon, they had developed a cult centering solely on Freyr who, in reality, was of course the Sufficiently Advanced Alien responsible for bringing them there in the first place. Notable features of this cult included gathering in a suspiciously church-like building at regular intervals, branding Freyr their "savior", and the complete and total resignation to the will of their deity. All in all, it reads more like an attempt by the writers to use an "uncooperative, xenophobic, holier-than-thou, super-religious rural Christian" stereotype without running the risk of offending any Christians. Interestingly, the people of the previous Norse planet worshiped only Thor. In another episode, the team found a transplanted medieval Christian village, where Sokar was posing as Satan. And it wasn't the only time parallels were drawn in universe between the two, who had even less in common than Hades and Lucifer. |
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In Wonder Woman, Queen Hippolyta tells a young Diana the story of how Zeus created the humans, but that his son, Ares, was jealous and set out to destroy them by seducing them to the dark side of war. And later how Ares rebelled against the other gods and was cast out. Meanwhile, the Amazons were made as a counterpoint to Ares' evil. As this Tumblr post points out, it's basically a weirdly feminist retelling of Genesis where Adam was seduced by the serpent before God even bothered to create Eve. | |
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Inverted in Cultist Simulator: The universe is governed by the Hours, and the in-universe text "The Gospel of Zacchaeus" suggests that Jesus was a cultist in service to one such Hour, the Mother of Ants (which, in turn, is conflated with St. Agnes by Christian cultists). It also suggests that the Passion was Jesus's method of attaining immortality in its service, and that Christianity is a cult founded by Jesus that endured and expanded after his "death". | |
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Chernabog from Fantasia sort of zig-zags this trope; he is technically an example, as, in spite of being named for and based on a Slavic god, he resembles a black-skinned Big Red Devil to a T and commands over a flaming hell that his mythological counterpart never had the barest hint of. The kicker is that it's no coincidence that he was at least once referenced as Satan by Walt Disney: the entire film was made and released with the intent that he was the Devil, and he was later retconned into being Chernabog as a form of bowdlerization. | |
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In The Replacement Killers, John berates the temple's Buddha statue for bringing unfair punishment on his family, likely because the scriptwriter was under the impression that all religions work just like Christianity and their respective icon of worship must be the culprit and target of any Rage Against the Heavens. In reality, Buddha is not the equivalent of God and isn't supposed to have any kind of control over the things that happen in the world, either good or bad, which instead obey (most of them, the rest happen basically because) to an impersonal principle of the universe named karma. While some Buddhist denominations do have deities that punish evildoers, those beings aren't the Buddha himself and don't follow his orders either. | |
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The Valkyrie Profile series is based on Norse myth, featuring Odin, the titular Valkyries, and the rest of the Aesir, but also feature very Christian-looking chapels, crosses, and other such artifacts. | |
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Class of the Titans can both avert and succumb to this. While Hades isn't presented as completely evil, his realm still looks like hell. Also, he seems a bit of a... girlish man. It's the voice. The other Gods may have their problems, they do some nasty things to mortals, but they're all still mostly good and Zeus' apparent, um, fooling around with others is never mentioned and his relationship with Hera seems healthy and strong. Kronos, the big bad of the series, is a close allegory to Satan, though, as he pretty much wants to bring about the apocalypse. Other myths and legends are shifted around and can either be really inaccurate or pretty damn close enough. Of course one must keep in mind, this is a kid's show. | |
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard features a pretty damn gutsy version of this for a children's book by mentioning Thor having a vendetta against Jesus ever since he didn't show up for a fight and taking his honor from him. | |
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The DC Extended Universe: In Man of Steel, Superman is presented as a Christ-like figure, complete with a Crucified Hero Shot for Clark Kent and Superman. In Wonder Woman, Queen Hippolyta tells a young Diana the story of how Zeus created the humans, but that his son, Ares, was jealous and set out to destroy them by seducing them to the dark side of war. And later how Ares rebelled against the other gods and was cast out. Meanwhile, the Amazons were made as a counterpoint to Ares' evil. As this Tumblr post points out, it's basically a weirdly feminist retelling of Genesis where Adam was seduced by the serpent before God even bothered to create Eve. |
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In Acts of the Apostles, Paul says outright "Here, you have an altar saying 'To an unknown god'note A leftover from an old affair which required the ritual cleansing of the whole Athens; well, this is the god I come to talk about". | |
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In the movie version of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Hades is, once again, a villain though not the Big Bad. Who is apparently portrayed as a fiery devil-creature, though that's just his favored form. The Hades from the book version seems to be this trope at first, but Ares is the real villain. The sequel film pulls this again by turning Kronos into a Satan expy made of lava and hellfire. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls series, this happens In-Universe with the religion of the Eight (later Nine) Divines absorbing and replacing other pantheons. Elements of those deities tend to be absorbed by their most-similar Divine equivalent, which leads to to some of the bizarrely conflicting traits and spheres of influence present in the Divines. For example, Kynareth, the Divines' Goddess of the Air with a Friend to All Living Things slant, absorbed the Valkyrie/Psychopomp role of her Nord and Khajiit equivalents in Kyne and Khenarthi. One rare exception comes with regards to Akatosh (the chief deity of the Divines Pantheon and "Dragon God of Time") and Ruptga (the "Tall Papa" chief deity of the Yokudan/Redguard pantheon). While some sources associate the two, they are typically treated as separate entities. The biggest difference seems to be that Akatosh participated in Lorkhan's plan to create Mundus (the mortal plane), while Ruptga did not "participate or approve" of Sep's (Lorkhan's Yokudan counterpart) plan. The act of creating Mundus severely weakened the Divines, so not participating would leave Ruptga at full divine power with Complete Immortality, closer to the Daedric Princes. | |
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Though not totally hijacked, the live-action film The Last Airbender incorporates Christian themes into places the TV show did not, notably, the use of crosses. Aang, an Airbender whose culture is based on Tibetan Buddhism, has his trademark arrow tattoo changed to resemble a cross. | |
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In Man of Steel, Superman is presented as a Christ-like figure, complete with a Crucified Hero Shot for Clark Kent and Superman. | |
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Many Christian converts were originally named after pagan gods, especially in the early church and in newly-Christianized lands—Acts of the Apostles records Christian converts named Apollos and Dionysius (known to Westerners as "Saint Denis"), and there are also saints named for the Greek goddess Demeter (St. Demetrius) and the Celtic Brighid (St. Brigid). Naturally, this was useful for converting those regions, as people could go by easy stages from "worshiping Apollo" to "venerating St. Apollos". | |
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In The Legend of Hercules, Hercules is not conceived through Zeus having sex with his mother Alcmene while disguised as her husband. Hera herself appears to Alcmene to tell her that she can become the mother of Zeus's son who will deliver the land from evil. Alcmene allows it, Zeus wills her to be pregnant and Hera names the son Hercules. | |
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Some reviewers have stated that the 1978 movie Superman is laden with Christ-like and Biblical themes from the story of Moses to a white-haired God-like father. The main villain even resides beneath the city in his underground lair. The whole "Superman as Jesus" trend really began when Jor-El, a mysterious spirit-father from the "heavens," claims that he's sending his son to Earth to show them the right way to live. Which really doesn't make any sense, since he's actually sending him to Earth to escape Krypton's destruction. |
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In Lord of Light, besides the fairly accurate Hindu gods, there is also an obvious Jesus metaphor among the cast of deities. However, the hint that he's supposed to be playing Jesus is "well — there's an evil necromancer to the West". | |
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Inverted in After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America. After the End, in post-apocalyptic America, Norse paganism has seen a revival. With some confusion. The new faith integrates several Christian traditions, however, including Yule celebrations, in which animals and humans are sacrificed before "Odin in his jolly Yule garb". | |
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On a grander scale, Hercules is the Jesus figure, Zeus is the God figure, Ares is Lucifer, and Pluto is Satan. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, the Imperium tends to work that way when implanting the Imperial Cult on the planets it incorporates. As one can imagine, it causes a lot of diversity, although there is a surprising amount of tolerance on the matter. | |
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The Epic Of Sundiata: In this case, hijacked by Muhammad is more accurate. Over time the mythos was reconfigured to fit in with Islamic cosmology, after Mali and its ruling dynasty became Muslim. Sundiata came to be seen as champion of Allah over paganism, despite being quite unrepentantly pagan in actual history. His benefactor is changed from Faro to Allah (or at least Mangala) in some tellings. | |
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Therion's "Birth of Venus Illegitima" discusses an event from Classical Mythology using a terminology of sin, forbidden sexuality, paradise and Hell that's far more Christian than Greek. note While "Venus" is the Roman name, Aphrodite being born from the sea was a purely Greek conceit. | |
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Hades in Hercules: The Animated Series is more of a Satan stand in than a faithful adaptation of Hades from Greek myth and is a supervillain | |
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One of the less-known stories in the Finnish national epic The Kalevala is the story of Marjatta, a virgin who is impregnated by a lingonberry (no, not that way, she eats it). She gives birth in a stable to a son who becomes the king of Karelia. Seeing that all the stories in The Kalevala were collected in early 1800s, this just can't be coincidental. It's likely that it was made up by Elias Lönnrot who collected folktales and songs into a unified national epic, and cut out the most contradictory bits, and added things here and there to tie events together better. It was supposed to symbolize Christianity overtaking the pagan beliefs, as the god-hero Väinämöinen is forced to leave the lands after first trying to condemn the child to death. Interestingly, though, Väinämöinen vows to return when people once again have need for him. Parodied in Finnish comic artist Petri Hiltunen's Return of Väinämöinen newspaper strips, where he reveals in embarrassment that he decided to leave when people started to look more closely to the whole "lingonberry"-bit. |
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The titular Julian, trying to revive Hellenistic paganism, realizes that this is his biggest problem. The Christians have brought in the masses by incorporating their holidays. | |
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The Doctor Who story Pyramids of Mars portrayed the Egyptian god Set/Sutekh as a Satan-type — and a Sufficiently Advanced Alien to boot, though a Physical God capable of destroying planets. However, the Doctor implied that Sutekh's people might not strictly count as good guys, either. | |
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Disney did it again in Aladdin. Although this is all taking place in a Ancient Middle Eastern setting, in Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the wedding of Aladdin and Jasmine is suspiciously Catholic-looking. (Although it's worth noting that the Genie organized the wedding...) | |
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Beowulf scholars believe that the 8th century poem is an adaptation of a Pagan epic from at least the century before, and that several elements in the story were introduced to make it resonate better with contemporary Christian audiences. These include Beowulf invoking God, Grendel and his mother being descendants of Cain and unable to hurt Hrothgar in his throne (because Christians believed that kings were protected by God) and Grendel's Mother's lair being protected by snakes (associated with Pagans and the Devil in Christianity). The final act with an elderly Beowulf fighting a dragon may have been entirely lifted from a Christian story (Saint George or similar) and tacked after (or over) the original Pagan's end. | |
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In Ultima IX, the Guardian is revealed as the dark side of the Avatar, due to the Avatar's continually righteous actions, paralleling Satan and Jesus, while older games establish the Guardian is a multiversal conqueror, and depending on one's play style, the Avatar is certainly not Jesus. | |
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Although most of the gods being jerks was inherent in the premise, the universe of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess was strange about this depending on the situation, especially Ares, who tends to waver between being a Jerkass and being pure evil depending on the needs of the plot. Hades was usually treated as just a dark but very overworked and unappreciated ruler of the Underworld. Eventually, the producers of Xena seemed intent on making up for lost time; in the last two seasons, the prophet Eli was an exceedingly thinly disguised Crystal Dragon Jesus and Xena was put on a quest to kill all the Pagan gods. A darker metaphor occurred with Dahak. Early appearances and descriptions to his cult sound like an analogue of early Christians, before we found out he was an unrelated evil god. Ironically, the references are kept and added to afterward to deliberately creep out the audience. Dahak derives from Azhi Dahaka, of course. |
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Clash of the Titans (2010): Hades is the bad guy. However, at least the writers tried to provide some form of justification in that in this version of events, he was tricked into taking control of the underworld by Zeus. The blow is further softened by virtue of the fact that the rest of the gods are generally portrayed as all around dicks, particularly since the story of Medusa's origin is told as the "Poseidon raped her and Athena punished her for it" variant. On the other hand, it then turns Zeus into Jesus by having him bring Io back from the dead, despite the fact that only Hades can raise the dead. To make matters worse, it essentially makes Zeus an Expy of the Abrahamic God by having him be the creator of mankind, when in reality — or mythology, really — it was a Titan called Prometheus who created man from clay. This is where the subtitle of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes from. | |
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Book 2 of The Legend of Korra features the light spirit Raava opposing the dark spirit Vaatu, with the latter being a Satanic Archetype. Normally, this would be a standard Western fantasy setup, but the design of the two spirits evoke Taoism's iconic yin-yang symbol, and this fundamentally goes against Taoist philosophy, in which light and dark are complementary and the goal is achieve balance between them to find inner peace. | |
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Scion Companion features an organization that are doing this in-world; they find young, inexperienced Scions, and convince them that their powers come from the Abrahamic God instead of one of those nasty pagan ones. Their goal is to drag all of the other gods into the Abrahamic mold, creating a "one true God". The book states they've already done this to a couple of pantheons (the Yoruba are specified). Given the closest we've seen to their ideal is one of the Titan avatars, their possible success is not portrayed as a good thing. Demigod also has Pan show up... and turn out to be masquerading as Satan. It's explained away as Pan's debauchery going up a notch and deciding to play to this idea of a horned and hooved wicked being For the Evulz. |
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Parodied in a John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme skit about the Labours of Hercules, when King Eurystheus asks Hercules to go to Hell and get Satan's dog. When Hercules questions this, Eurystheus replies "Well, whatever we call him. You know who I mean: Hell boss. The big bad." | |
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The Camp Half-Blood Series: Subverted in The Lightning Thief, the first novel of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. When Zeus' master lightning bolt is stolen, the first suspect is Hades. Hades is believed to have stolen the master bolt in order to start a rebellion. As it turns out, the thief was actually the lead character's camp counselor, Luke. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard features a pretty damn gutsy version of this for a children's book by mentioning Thor having a vendetta against Jesus ever since he didn't show up for a fight and taking his honor from him. |
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The depiction of Hecate in Charmed. "The Wedding from Hell" pretty much reduces an In Name Only use of Hecate's name without ever using enough of the mythology that it was ever a "depiction of Hecate". Which still makes it a Hijacked By Jesus, since Hecate is certainly not this kind of generic evil goddess. | |
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In X-Men: Apocalypse, Apocalypse, like in the comics, is an ancient Egyptian who commands the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The movie takes it further, with the horsemen possibly being the inspiration for the Biblical horsemen. Apocalypse accuses modern society of idolatry, one of the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament, and Apocalypse ends up saying "All is revealed," as in the definition of an apocalyptic work. An ancient Egyptian would be familiar with a very different set of religious beliefs. Moreover, Apocalypse is asleep during time periods when these Biblical beliefs would have been active in areas outside of ancient Egypt, so it's odd that he is such a huge fan of both the Old Testament and New Testament, as if he were a modern Biblical reader. | |
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In Golden Lad, the titular lad draws his power from a pendant that is supposedly powered by "the blood of a thousand martyred Aztecs". Martyrdom is a Christian concept. | |
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Originally, the Transformers had no backstory other than "Aliens from a distant planet fight each other". Then we were introduced to the Quintessons, and the backstory became "All transformers were originally built for slave labor, but rebelled against their creators". Nowadays Hasbro's official backstory is "Primus and Unicron are the personafication of Good and Evil, Primus created the transformers while Unicron wants to destroy everything. There also were 13 primes, 1 of them is a traitor". It's also never been explictly said, but Optimus Prime, who dies and comes back at least once in every series and is considered the most heroic character in the series, is implied to be one of the original Primes. | |
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Constantine (2005) removes all non-Christian (and for the most part non-Catholic) mythical elements that were present in Hellblazer. In the comics' canon, John does have a certain "relationship" with Heaven and Hell, namely that they both get up his arse, and all kinds of other mythical entities exist. | |
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Saint Seiya and its spin-offs suffer a little with this, since Hades is portrayed as a currently malevolent deity, and the Underworld he governs has little to do with the Greek underworld (sans Cerberus, Elysium, and the rivers); it's instead a rather faithful manga version of Dante's Inferno, which in turn was meant to represent the Christian hell. It is however mentioned that Hades used to have a friendly relationship with humanity, but lost his faith in humanity due to their constant sins, and disrespect towards the gods. His favor to Orpheus is mentioned in the series. | |
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Even more explicitly, Justice League Unlimited showed Tartarus as an analogy to Hell to the point that it actually had demons that shirked in fear from Hawkgirl when they mistook her for an angel. Hawkgirl muddies the waters a bit when, a moment later, she hopes they don't run into any smart denizens of Tartarus. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is based on films from the 1930s, which commonly reduced various foreign cultures into caricature. In the film, the complex and sophisticated religion of Hinduism is reduced to nice people worshiping Shiva and murderous Thuggee cultists worshiping Kali. The film portrays Thuggee almost as a kind of Hollywood Satanism. The real Thugs, those who practiced Thuggee, did worship Kali, but no more so than the Ku Klux Klan worshiped Jesus. While they did tend to ritually murder people, it was by strangulation via a yellow scarf, not ripping hearts out of someone's chest. It wasn't just the British who worked on eradicating them. And, incidentally, Kali herself is Shiva's wife. Not the estranged kind, either.note Technically, Parvati is Shiva's wife, and Kali is the darker aspect of her, who awakens to strike down Evil when needed — basically, Kali is the Hulk to Parvati's Bruce Banner. In Indy's defense, though, he does briefly note that the Thuggees are a heretical sect. To clarify it, Kali is a good goddess, but there is a demon ACTUALLY worshiped by the equivalent of Satanists named Kali. Note that there is no relation between the two entities. The confusion exists because, English not having the level of vowel representation Indian languages do, the names of both the demon and the Goddess are written with the same spelling. For those interested, the approximate pronunciations are as follows: the Goddess's name is "Kah-lee", whereas the demon is "Kully". The proper transcriptions are KÄ�lÄ« and Kali. | |
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