I haven't seen anyone offer a better explanation for why these petroglyphs are found all over the entire world. They're too primitive to be the work of a global advanced civilization, It makes a lot more sense that they all witnessed the same catastrophic events, and developed legends based on what they witnessed in the heavens.
>People would (will?) go out of their minds.
I think it certainly made quite an impact. It's incredible to listen to the Greek genesis tales from the perspective of planetary chaos, the speaker in this podcast has no idea how what he's saying is directly describing these events, under the mythos of battling Titans and Gods.
https://youtu.be/yMIfNN9jZik