I have been hearing more and more about this theory of Saturn as a brown dwarf star. It would make a lot of sense. It explains a lot of catastrophic events that we know happened on Earth. It would explain why ancient cultures know the planets so well and named them like gods.
When you have a front row seat to the cosmic realignment of your planetary neighborhood, it would be hard not to believe they're gods fighting in the sky. Though I think the article you provided starts to get a bit presumptuous towards the Bronze Age. It's still a solid theory.