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This is when a constructed fictional religion is clearly a mix of any number of real-world religions. That Other Wiki knows this process as it happens in Real Life as syncretism. Differs from Crossover Cosmology in that this creates a "new" cosmology from pieces of established idea systems. Popular in Space Opera and Science Fiction as representative of alien cultures. A subtrope of Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot and a Sister Trope to Culture Chop Suey. Can also be Truth in Television since there are few religions that don't share certain rituals or beliefs with other religions. This seems to come up a lot in anime fantasy settings, though it could (and oftentimes appears to) just be a cultural misunderstanding of Western ideas and philosophies while substituting familiar concepts (like Buddhism and Shintoism) into the knowledge gaps. Also, sometimes in anime, instead of All Christianity Being Catholic, you'll see a mix-mash of ideas from various Christian denominations all pooled into a single faith. Related to Emergency Multifaith Prayer, when a character in a tight spot offers a prayer to every deity they can think of in the hopes that at least one of them will be listening. Compare and contrast Church of Saint Genericus, where the religious details could cover any number of faiths simply because they're left nonspecific. See also Universal Chaplain, who will provide services for someone of any faith if necessity calls. |
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The end of The Pendragon Adventure has Ravinia, in which people see life in the rest of the universe (Halla) for the first time. This is not a religion in itself, but something that attracts people regardless of religion into one group. On the other hand, it divides people based on social class. | |
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The Thursday Next series has the Global Standard Deity (GSD), a church that openly and shamelessly mixes and matches elements of various faiths apparently at will — her brother "the Very Irreverent Joffy Next" is basically a hedonist. This is partly down to the fact that in this world literature is the major Serious Business in people's lives, with sport, religion and television distant runners-up. | |
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Parodied in Gaia Online by the Church of Non-Specific Worship. This may exist because one plotline has shown that not only do Physical Gods exist in Gaia, they're numerous and varied enough to make categorization and organized religion difficult. | |
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Solatorobo's Oshilasama seems to be one part the Buddhist-Shinto amalgam common to Japan and one part Functional Magic. Oh, and something about an evil dog-god who loses his powers if you turn his statues upside-down. | |
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The only thing you can definitively say about Reverend Lovejoy's church in The Simpsons is that it's some variety of Protestantism. In an episode where Bart and Homer convert to Catholicism, the Rev describes the One True Faith as being "the Western Branch of the Reformed Church of American Presbo-Lutheranism". Ned Flanders confesses in one episode that he's "kept Kosher to be on the safe side." |
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Shadowrun: Hong Kong has Ten-Armed Ambrose share that his sister was a practitioner of Trans-Catholicism, a mix of Catholicism and Hinduism. With the academic etiquette, your character knows some prayers for it. | |
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The Matrix movie trilogy is all over the place, embedding clear (in order of dominance throughout the series), Buddhist, Christian and Gnostic philosophies not only throughout the characters and plot, but including the music score, especially in The Matrix Revolutions soundtrack, which uses Ominous Latin Chanting, Sanskrit flavored, while the Big Bad ridicules the hero about being a Messianic Archetype. | |
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One episode of Star Trek: Discovery featured a Lost Colony whose ancestors were whisked away from Earth during World War III. They believe they were saved by God, but couldn't agree on which God saved them. As a result they created a religious text that brought in aspects of, among others, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, and even Wicca. | |
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The Mune Shinri, a web-based religion is a syncretic blend of Taoism, Shintoism, and Christianity. If Christianity forbids syncretism, and Taoism allows it, does that make it right or wrong? | |
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Piecing Together the Ashes: Reconstructing the Old World Order: One of the major post-Deluge religions, Widdhism, is a fusion of Wicca, Taoism and Buddhism, along with some smaller sects. The major post-Deluge branches of Christianity in America also qualify — the Reconstructionist Christians are the result of remaining Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and some Protestants while the Southron Church of Christ combines numerous Protestant denominations together along with Confederate nostalgia. |
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In Freefall omniquantism is the idea that if God is omnipotent and all things are possible, then it is possible that all religions are correct simultaneously. One in three A.I.s lock up after hearing the concept, Florence managed to make sense of it though. | |
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The SCP Foundation has several examples: SCP-3004 is a horrific form of this: an old cicada-based nature deity that found itself syncretized with the Christian God by missionaries to win over its cult. Unfortunately, this worked too well, as this meant the cicada god itself was convinced it was the Christian God, and is essentially trying to replace God as the central figure of Christianity—and it doesn't help that it also conflated the idea of venerating Jesus's sacrifice with just venerating pain and torture in general. This manifests in abrupt and inexplicable instances of staunch Christians and churchgoers performing bizarre sacrificial rituals that usually end in live cicadas crawling out of someone's orifices. The Fifthist Church is this trope played for a different type of horror. The Church's central tenet is something about transcending reality and assimilating into the mysterious 'Fifth World', which is so alien that the only way they can relate to normal human belief systems is by co-opting a kludge of whatever beliefs are common to the area, some astral symbolism and Lovecraftian themes. A lot of modern Fifthist cults take a New-Age Retro Hippie look, but there's versions that appropriate Christianity, Buddhism, Communism, Aztec polytheism, Confucianism, self-help books, chapstick sales, and every other belief system under the sun. The general effect is to highlight how creepy the Fifthists are. |
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Sanshinto or Tritheism in Tasakeru is based primarily on Shinto, but has elements from Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology. The species' differing beliefs draw from everywhere, even, according to the author, the Cthulhu Mythos. | |
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Gamzee's religion in Homestuck seems to be based around Christianity, with a little Islam for flavour (he gets very upset about seeing video depictions of his Messiahs), and perhaps with a little Judaism (his ancestor was responsible for the persecution of the Troll Jesus), mixed up with stoner / hippie culture, and then all applied to Juggalo fandom. A parody, obviously. Word of God is that is was inspired by an Eldritch Abomination and his Manipulative Bastard Dragon, arguably making it a Religion of Evil. | |
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The Eastern Dragon in Sinfest is a living embodiment of all East Asian religions. | |
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In Civilization: Beyond Earth, Kavitha Thakur of the Kavithan Protectorate is some kind of religious leader, though the tenets of her belief system are mostly left ambiguous. However, an in-game quote from one of her prayer devotionals unambiguously reveals how mish-mash the faith's mythology is. | |
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Rusty and Co.: There are enough Odd Job Gods from different pantheons that they group up to offer themed LLC (Limited Liability Congregation) spellcasting packages to worshippers. | |
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Stranger in a Strange Land has Valentine Michael Smith form a union of every single religion called "The Church of All Worlds," which eventually inspired a real religious community of the same name. | |
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In an xkcd strip, this discussion takes place: | |
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New Era - Old World, an unofficial spin-off of After the End set in the Old World has a few flavors: Muwahidunna is an Islamic sect located in Sahara, which preaches that all Monotheistic religions of the world follow the same God and as such, are all brothers which shouldn't fight. Chrislam, the religion of the Nigerian Empire is a syncretic blend of both Christianity and Islam, incorporating elements of both. Yugoslavism of well, Yugoslavia, is a blend of Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Sunni Islam, attempting to bring peace to a crumbling Empire. |
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Since its earliest days, Dungeons & Dragons has liked to present players with the option to include "pagan" religions as real pantheons of deities in their settings. This has on occasion led to pantheons being offered up which are actually made by rather crudely combining different faiths together; the most infamous examples, which hail from the game's earliest days, are the Native American pantheon (which combines heroes and deities from many different beliefs) and the Celtic pantheon (which combines Continental Celtic, Romanized Celtic, Irish and Welsh gods into a single group). | |
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In Escape Velocity: Nova , the Church of Krim-Hwa is this in-universe. | |
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The Bajoran faith which features prominently in nearly every episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine combines elements of all three Western monotheisms (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) together with Eastern Hindu/Buddhist mysticism (with the bonus that their gods are definitely real and occasionally show up to chat with the heroes). Plus, they once had castes like Hinduism. And a Catholic style leadership (The Kai and the Vedak Assembly lining up with the Pope and the College of Cardinals respectively). | |
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The far future religions in the Dune series are either this (i.e. the Orange Catholic Bible) or the Coca-Pepsi, Inc. type (Zensunni). The Coca-Pepsi, Inc. ones are the more numerous though. The Orange Catholic Bible seems to be more dominant in the first novel, but then a Zensunni branch ends up overrunning the known universe. There is also the fact that the Orange Catholic Bible was created to be the most universal holy text reasonably possible, not necessarily the most universal religion reasonably possible.note A bit of a Genius Bonus since the word "Catholic" originally meant "all-encompassing", which became a sort of Artifact Title for the real Catholic Church. The prequel novels show that the creation of the OCB was far from a peaceful and universally-accepted process (taking place less than a century after the end of the Butlerian Jihad). In fact, the people who compiled the book nearly got themselves lynched by the angry mobs. They were only spared when The Emperor intervened and granted them sanctuary in his palace. That is, until his young daughter caught one of them supposedly raping the Empress (said daughter would later start to suspect that the act may have been consensual). The Emperor then had all the translators publicly executed, making his daughter watch the consequences of her actions. It's not clear when that hatred for the OCB turned into nigh-universal acceptance. |
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On Teachers (2016), Ms. Bennigan's religion combines Catholic, Mormon, and evangelical stereotypes. | |
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Fallout contains shades of this with few easily defined religions having survived the atomic war. By the time of Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4 the largest surviving faiths seem to be the Church of Atom that worships nuclear weapons, and some variation of Christianity preserved by the NCR with all others being down to individuals groups. The majority of organized churches seen hold the view of praying to whatever gives the individual comfort rather then being faith specific. | |
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The Forgotten Realms are an incredible blend of deities from multiple real-world religions operating alongside both each other and completely fictitious deities. The core pantheon alone includes the Nordic Tyr, Finnish Loviatar, and Irish Oghma alongside a Crystal Dragon Jesus in Ilmater and the elf & dwarf creator-gods Corellon and Moradin. | |
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Star Trek: The Klingon belief system seems to be an odd mish-mash of Shinto and Norse mythology, with a Messianic Archetype figure (Kahless) and a quirk (they had gods, but killed them as too much of a bother) thrown in. Vulcan spirituality seems to have elements of Shinto ancestor worship within a predominant Buddhist philosophy, with 'logic' substituted for Dharma. The Bajoran faith which features prominently in nearly every episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine combines elements of all three Western monotheisms (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) together with Eastern Hindu/Buddhist mysticism (with the bonus that their gods are definitely real and occasionally show up to chat with the heroes). Plus, they once had castes like Hinduism. And a Catholic style leadership (The Kai and the Vedak Assembly lining up with the Pope and the College of Cardinals respectively). One episode of Star Trek: Discovery featured a Lost Colony whose ancestors were whisked away from Earth during World War III. They believe they were saved by God, but couldn't agree on which God saved them. As a result they created a religious text that brought in aspects of, among others, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, and even Wicca. |
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Gandhi: Invoked consciously by the titular character: He also mentions that it was common for him as a child attend religious services where the priest would quote from the Vedas, Qu'ran, and Bible alike. |
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Lost always favored the archetypal over the specific, and throughout its run contained references to many different religions and philosophies, hinting that there's some universal basis to all of them, even John Locke's personal shamanistic and prophetic belief system. The finale reinforces this by showing a stained glass window with symbols of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism on it, all radiating outward from one single source (that's also the same color as the light at the heart of the island). | |
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The Handbook: House Davion sourcebook for BattleTech details a religious movement in the Federated Suns called the "Unfinished Book Movement" which is a literal mash-up of a number of existing religions (most of which still exist elsewhere in the setting, even within Davion Space) into a single entity with a single, collected, holy scripture. Apparently it's becoming quite a major player in the realm by the time the book was set. | |
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Motherland: Fort Salem: The witches seem to practice some kind of paganism, judging by their Beltane orgy and other references. Raelle is mocked by another cadet for using a Bible quote in her spells though, described as "Christo-pagan". | |
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Crusader Kings III adds a lot of syncretism between faiths and allows you to create new faiths and syncretize with others through certain tenets. There's also a lot of faiths which are syncretic by nature. | |
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Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire: The Church of Slag-Blah are "militant agnostics" and celebrate a different religious holy day every day. | |
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In-Universe in The Elder Scrolls series with the original Eight Divines pantheon. Founded by Empress Alessia of the First Cyrodilic Empire, she is said to have consciously made a synthesis of elven and Nordic gods, in order to appease both her Nord allies (notably Kynareth/Kyne and Stendarr/Stuhn) and the elven Cyrodiilics and Ayleids (notably Auri-El/Akatosh and Xarxes/Arkay)she now ruled. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire seems to do this with fictional religions in the cult of the Many Faced God. The temple includes shrines to gods from all over, and his adherents believe that all gods (or at least all death gods) are avatars of him. There's also some implication of the religion taking elements from other faiths in the universe in its theology and worship. | |
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In Life of Pi, the title character manages to be a practicing Hindu, Christian, and Muslim all at once, to the confusion of most of the other characters. He was born a Hindu but chooses to simultaneously practice both Islamic and Christian rituals as he grows up. His stated reason is that he "just wants to love God." | |
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Futurama plays with a somewhat joke-y version of this trope in the First Amalgamated Church, headed by Father Changstein El-Gamal. Supposedly created from the merging of major 20th Century religions - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism as well as agnosticism, and the logo shows it. Differs from more serious examples in that part of the joke appears to be that the Church doesn't have even a semi-coherent belief system and mostly just tries to be as generically 'spiritual-ish' as possible. | |
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In Legend of the Five Rings the state religion of Rokugan, a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Japan, is Shinseism, a fusion of Japan's two most common faiths (Shinto and Buddhism), plus Taoism. | |
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The Videssos books, being chockablock with Fantasy Counterpart Cultures, have lots of these. The religion of Videssos proper (the fantasy analogue of the Byzantine Empire) looks a lot like Orthodox Christianity (with bishops, monks, ecumenical councils, schisms over variations in the Creed), but the dualistic belief system is much more like Zoroastrianism (two powerful gods, one good and one evil, at war). There are heresies with variant understandings of the war (Videssians believe the good god is sure to win, Khatrishers believe the two gods are perfectly balanced, Namdaleni believe the gods are balanced but you ought to act as if you're sure the good god will win). The main other empire starts out as practically-Muslim (with belief in a single God and four supreme Prophets), but ends up being dominated by a diabolist religion that worships the evil Videssian god. | |
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The heroine of Hatoful Boyfriend describes herself and her family as Shin-Buddhist, but is perfectly willing to celebrate Christmas if given the opportunity. This is pretty much exactly how real Japanese people treat Christmas. | |
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The Church of Confusion sermonette on Saturday Night Live is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. For starters, it's delivered by the Most Reverend Archbishop Maharishi O'Mulliganstein, D.D.S. | |
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The Outer Worlds: Scientism is a weird mix of Christian Scientist, Taoism, Confician Philosophy, and megacorporate Cargo Cult. It is supposedly the culmination of Deist philosophy, a purely logical religion that worships the laws of physics themselves... but it's pretty clearly more intended to keep everyone controlled and obeying their superiors. | |
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In After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America the end of the world brought new faiths, some which try to mix old ones into one: The "Druidism" of Northwest Canada combines Celtic paganism with the religions of the Innu and Inuit peoples of the region. The cult of the Falling Star is a a syncretic mix of the shamanism of the native Miskito people’s and the Moravian church which became a major part of the Miskito people’s culture when missionaries arrived, with the addition of a messianic figure of the titular "Falling Star", an angel that prevented the world to be destoyed. The Moravian church can be restored through an event chain reveals that the "falling star" was simply a falling meteor, however. |
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Babylon 5 has a few varieties of these. Dr. Franklin follows a religion called Foundationism that believes all religions in the galaxy reflect the same greater truth at their core, and freely adopts customs from all of them for its own use (such as the Australian Aboriginal practice of going walkabout). There's also a The Maker religion, a belief so generic that members of several different cultures take it up and integrate it into other faiths. We are also introduced to an order of Catholic monks who have made it their mission to find out all they can about alien faiths in order to "learn all the names of God". | |
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Pitch Black has 'Chrislam' (which is a real thing) pilgrims heading for the planet of New Mecca. | |
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In Koan of the Day, the guru is an amalgamation of Jesus, the Buddha, and Socrates. | |
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The Sword of Saint Ferdinand: AgatÃn is half-Christian half-Islamic. He assures his guests he is fully Christian but he merely keeps Islamic relics so he is not given grief by potential Moorish visitors. Fortún and GarcÃa are not convinced, since he casually will quote both Jesus Christ and Muhammad in the same breath, but they will not give him grief about his weird syncretism either. | |
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The Lost Years of Merlin: In-Universe, Merlin's mother Bronwen worships both the Celtic gods such as Dagda and also Jesus. The series has Dagda show a lot of traits traditionally attributed to Jesus as well (possibly in the books they are the same being). | |
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At the outset of Crisis of the Confederation the Pilgrimage has elements of this. Formally it is only a loose association helping to organize pilgrimages to Earth, but this exists to a large part because seeing Earth as sacred has become a shared element across many religions (there are those that reject it, but that is a cleavage point across modern-day religions rather than between them). If chance should place a faithful Pilgrimage adherent in a strong enough position over Sol, it is possible for the Pilgrimage to be reformed into an actual, if broad, church, the Terran Orthodoxy. | |
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Enigma Babylon One World Faith in the Left Behind books, which consists of Roman Catholicism merged with various Christian sects. | |
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High School D×D is largely a Crossover Cosmology, but still makes this trope out of Heaven and the Angel faction, which appear to be a broad-strokes amalgamation of every major Abrahamic religion. What makes this stand out is one character being a properly-researched Protestant, as contrast to the usual all-pervasive Catholicism. The writer has stated this just made the whole mess much easier to keep track of, while the story explains that Heaven being more unified than its followers is classified information, as God Is Dead and the faith-based mechanism Heaven gets its power from if already close to falling apart without Him, and revealing the truth could sink the faction entirely. Also, while Church-faction civil wars do drive a couple of conflict arcs, they're always Catholic schisms who know the truth or never have their denomination made clear. | |
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Sorry, Bro: Erebuni was raised an Orthodox Christian like most Armenians. She also practices Wiccan magic though while taking communion and sculpting traditional cross statues, blending both. | |
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Pangaeism, the most politically correct religion ever, is briefly mentioned in Last Res0rt, apparently they have a minor holy war every time a new species is contacted and the scripture needs to be revised to include their mythology. | |
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Wayism in Andromeda is this. It's mostly Buddhist 'peace in suffering' teachings, with a few other things thrown in. In universe it was created by a Magog who was taught the concepts of various religions to him by the human host he was spawned from. | |
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In one of the Uplift novels a crazy alien evangelist preaches that a single Creator made humans without one of the sinful Galactic species uplifting them, a species-wide virgin birth. And cites not only Jesus but also Moses, Buddha, Mohammad, Tipler, and Weimberg-Chang. | |
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Siren 1 has the local religion of Hanuda, which combines village and Japanese folklore with Christianity and worship of an "alien god" who the locals ate during a famine and whose new physical incarnation serves as the final boss of the game. | |
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Rift: In the backstory, the Guardians, made up of humans, high elves, and dwarfs, had all at one point worshipped the five gods separately. But when the Dragon of Death, Regulos, had tried to invade Telara, the gods came together to form the Vigil, and now all three races worship all five of the gods together. | |
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The Chaos Timeline has the Indian Chandramoorthy develop his own religion, which combines elements from Hinduism, Islam, Catholicism and the classical Greco-Roman religion. | |
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Firefly is a subtle example, as the only explicitly religious ceremony it shows is a funeral which combines Christian and Buddhist elements, which may just be Artistic License - Religion. | |
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Oracle of Tao has a strange mix of Shintoism, Taoism, and Christianity. They call it Aiken (based on Japanese ai ken, not Clay Aiken). It's basically very heavily into nature and love (and ancestor worship). | |
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