David Talbott - The Saturn Myth -

Beside him, the High Shaman didn't turn. His eyes were milky with age, fixed on the radiant wheel. "The axle is breaking, boy. The Golden Age is a thin glass about to shatter."

The myths were true: the gods were going to war, and the sky was about to fall.

Ancient "stairways to heaven" (like Ziggurats) were actually attempts to reach the plasma discharge column stretching toward Saturn. David Talbott - The Saturn Myth

The idea that Saturn, Venus, and Mars were once aligned in a single "stack" above the Earth's North Pole.

If you are developing this further, you might want to incorporate these specific concepts from Talbott’s thesis: Beside him, the High Shaman didn't turn

When the alignment broke, the resulting plasma storms were interpreted by survivors as dragons or serpents attacking the sun. Commentaries on the Gallic War by Julius Caesar (1908).pdf

Young Elian stood on the edge of the obsidian cliffs, looking up. Around the Great Star, a shimmering skirt of light—the —pulsed with a low, rhythmic hum that vibrated in the marrow of his bones. There was no moon, no scattering of distant stars; there was only the Column of Light that connected the earth to the heart of the god above. "It is moving," Elian whispered. The Golden Age is a thin glass about to shatter

This sounds like the beginning of a fascinating cosmic-horror or speculative-mythology piece. David Talbott’s work—specifically The Saturn Myth —proposes that in prehistoric times, Saturn didn't just hang in the distant sky; it sat fixed at the north celestial pole as a massive, glowing sun. The sky was not black, and the sun was not a traveler.