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So, it turns out that [[All Myths Are True]]; you can have breakfast with the God of Thunder, [[Pals with Jesus|chat it up]] with the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] [[The Sandman|of Dreams]], or even have a heart to heart with [[The Grim Reaper]]. All the while remaining totally un-conflicted about remaining faithful to the [[God|Big Guy Upstairs]] or whichever major religion the characters follow; even [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]] can hang with the [[Powers That Be]] and get a high five.
A '''Crossover Cosmology''' is different from [[All Myths Are True]] in that many of the cosmologies involved are themselves mutually exclusive either in world view, history, philosophy, or all of the above. The issue becomes especially thorny when polytheistic religions with large pantheons are mixed with monotheistic religions and reincarnation-based belief systems. It's rarely inadvertent, either. Black Adam getting his power from the Egyptian gods whereas his successor Captain Marvel gets them from the Greek gods (and one Biblical figure) wasn't a slip-up; neither was making both Hercules and Thor superheroes. Writers have no problem doing this to "pagan" gods, and outside of Western culture (or the mainstream in Western culture, for that matter) they don't have much trouble doing it to [[wikipedia:Abrahamic religions|the Abrahamic God]] either.
This can be justified from the characters' viewpoint by having them point out that there's no reason they should believe that, say, Thor is a god in the same sense Yahweh is, when there are people who are flying around and summoning lightning, or are even [[Immortality|immortal]], who are plain old [[Mutants]], [[Meta Origin|metahumans]], or [[Human Aliens|aliens]].
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