Correct. They believed those planets were gods because they believed they were the souls of their dead forefathers.
And I should have added, that's why they thought themselves "the sons of God", just as the Scriptures describe in Genesis before the flood. By calling themselves "sons of God", they were giving themselves divine natures, so they, the Elite, were seen by others as "gods" in their own rights. It was all a scam, deep delusion.
There are places that do xmas in July in the Southern Hemisphere to get the winter feel of it.
There was an xmas in July in Yellowstone held by the staff, then this was extended to August for a "cleaner" version.
Then there's an end-of-life movie called "Christmas in August", Korean. Apparently, a character would not live long enough to reach December, so they had an xmas early. A romance genre.