Those ancient religions were all astral in nature. Primitive people seeking to devise an astral religion today would end up worshiping the sun and the moon. But the two chieftain gods of every one of those old religious systems were the two dwarf stars or former dwarf stars, Jupiter and Saturn, and particularly Saturn. Vestiges of that old reality are all around us. We still call our sabbath "Saturn's day"; the chief Roman religious festival was "Saturnalia"; Vergil describes (Aeneid) Rome being built over the ruins of an older city called "Saturnia".
Plato consistently refers to antediluvians as "nurselings of Cronos(Saturn)"; Hesiod and Ovid describe history as a golden age during which Saturn/Cronos was the "king of heaven", followed by the great flood, and then a silver age when Zeus/Jupiter was "king of heaven", followed by the Trojan war and then the present iron age.
In the same language, our sun is the "king of heaven now".
Given what they teach in schools as to how our system formed up, you'd expect the spin axes of the bodies in our system to all be roughly perpendicular to the plane of the system. The sun, Jupiter, and Mercury all do look sort of like that, spin axes less than ten degrees. There are two or three bodies with oddball axis tilts, but then the four remaining bodies, Saturn, Neptune, Earth, and Mars all have the same rough 26-degree tilt, indicating that they were all captured as a group and probably very recently. That would account for the recent megafauna die-out conventionally placed around 12,000 years ago as well as the flood and some of the other worldwide disasters mentioned in ancient literature.
People steeped in public-school cosmology could think of Troy McLachlan's book as a ten-dollar education upgrade.