absolutely assuredly the ancient stories are based on physical phenomena that our current, perverted "Science" does not want the people knowing this stuff happens, and most assuredly, they don't want people to clue on that it's coming up soon to happen again (the massive plasma cloud from a superflare/micronova, and the electrical currents and planet-scale epic natural disaster shit that makes everything we know of in the last 200 years pale in comparison.

why do they not want us to know?

because they are trying to kill us, because we don't agree that they are majestic gods who should be worshiped