All ancient religions were astral in nature, at least at first, and the associations of planet names and names of gods and goddesses are primordial.
If you were to ask a group of primitive people in today's world to devise an astral religion from scratch, i.e. off the tops of their heads, they would invariably end up worshipping the sun and the moon, with Venus and Jupiter in (very) distant third and fourth spots. Funny thing though, the two chieftain gods in every one of those ancient astral religions were Jupiter and Saturn (Zeus and Kronos), and not the sun and moon. Plato and other Greek authors consistently refer to antediluvians as children (or nurselings) of Kronos, and Hesiod and Ovid both claim that there was once a golden age when Saturn/Kronos was "king of heaven", followed by an age when Zeus/Jupiter was king of heaven, followed by the age of the Trojan war and then the present age. In the same language, the sun is the king of heaven now.
What the ancients clearly believed was that Jupiter and Saturn had once comprised a small double star system which we were in fact part of, and that the sun later captured that system.
I guess what I am asking is what do you mean when you say that the entire nature of the solar system was altered? Are you now saying that it was our (humans) view of the solar system that was altered?
Very different statements.
bump ... sounds like some of Cremo’s Forbiden archeology.