You tell me! Please!humbleman said:It depends of how much closer.
The idea that Mars had sons was mentioned from ancient times. At no point did anyone see any satellites of Mars. Swift was making an educated guess based on the facts observed in his times: One, Earth and Jupiter had moons, so it was likely that Mars did too (the theory that the further out you get in the solar system, the more moons you have. Not exactly true, but reasonable to guess according to the available evidence) Also since no one had seen the moons, they must be small and close to Mars. His educated guess turned out to be correct. Plenty of other people made guesses, some educated and some not, that turned out not to be correct. Edgar Rice Burroughs, for example.
When discovered, the moons were named after the sons of Mars. I have no idea what afflicts you to think that because Mars' moons are named Phobos and Deimos, that the mention of these characters in old myths confirms that they knew about the moons.
How much closer, who knows?
About how the solar system was in the past no one has the minimum idea based on facts.
Only the ancient knew about it when they observed the skies.
If, by chance, you have the researcher ID to have access to manuscripts and references of all kind, then you are going to be surprised of how much information never reaches the general public. It is a kind of "classified" information.
Velikovsky was found guilty of heresy when he published even letters from biblical times kings.
That dinosaurs were warm blood was known since 1800s but the information was never given and people always related dinosaurs with reptiles. After some leaks and the obvious finding by private organizations discovering the warm blood evidence, it is when slowly but surely images of dinosaurs with feathers appeared in science magazines and other publications.
That time doesn't exist at all is already known in science, but the fantasy of relativity is forced to be broadcasted because is like production of cigarettes, many people have work and are fed thanks to such a fantasy.
There are events showing that celestial bodies of great size perturbed our planet.
Ancient history is based on those events as well.
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That quote from the Popul Vuh is made up. They didn't have a single creator god. They had several gods, who made several blunders before managing to create humankind. I've read the Popul Vuh.
Of course, you never actually bothered to check his primary sources, right? You fell for the old trick of attributing a made up quote from an obscure source, and then juxtaposing it with a correct quote from a more well known source, so that the reader assumes the one is as accurate as the other.
Actually I have the Popol Vuh book, and I remember that indeed, there is a mention of a Creator.