Absolutely. Except during any periods of extremes. Not your average warming and cooling normally the result of solar activity and tectonics. How extreme can it get. That answer can be existential. Super volcano, micronova, impact.

As far as god there are too many schools on whether he was the Sun, Justice, light, life, and the leviathan, kraken, tiamut, quetzalcoatl, Satan. Some believed that Satan fell to the earth, and an above beast, a serpent, dragon, behemoth resided in the earth and brought forth great destruction. Simplified version, quick.

I don't read too much into the tales except it is obvious calamity occurred, and the stars, and cosmos influences our weather.

They all had similar origin stories, cain and abel and moses and deluge and they all had a pantheon and many based this on the cosmos. Until what do you know it became the Occult. Because of secular worship.

But you're right cycles occur influencing our planet and the weather changes bringing our seasons, and storms, and even extremes. Do we affect nature. Yes. But do we control it. No. The gods do. Hence they were worshipped. Ironically