And yet, a clear implication of electricity in space is that close encounters with the planets are not the only source of an electrical catastrophe on earth. Geoeffective solar flares, NEOs, charged objects entering the plane of the ecliptic, and sungrazers are just a few other types of events which may be colorfully commemorated in folk beliefs, or may have shaped the local geography.

Henbury Crater
By attempting to force all mention of all electricity and thunderbolts, and all mention of gods, into a thing caused by planets -- does this not repress or suppress all of the other causes of electrical catastrophe in the past? The extraordinary distortions to dating alone that would result from this approach are breathtaking.
The evidence shows that any near earth object could be the source of a Tunguska-class event. Therefore, attempting to cram all dates, all history, and all folk tales into a planetary disruption is very possibly a kind of repression of the unpleasant or painful idea that there is a laundry list of electrical disasters which may happen at any time.
I feel like I am no fun saying this! But I do believe that we have all seen how a charged body, like the earth or Jupiter or a comet, responds to a differently charged body that gets too close, even if it is quite small in relation.