Across different continents and different time periods, Venus's weird ass orbit has led to a number of katabasis narratives.
The oldest written religious story is Ianna's descent to the underworld, where a goddess associated with the morning star (Venus) goes into the underworld before emerging again later on, just as the planet's orbit causes it to dip below the horizon before emerging again.
On the other side of the world the Aztecs had the story as Quetzalcoatl, again associated with the celestial body, going into the underworld to resurrect humanity.
As cultures evolved to watch the celestial orbits, the strange movements of Venus seemed to have inspired their imaginations around the idea that what was put beneath the earth might rise again.
Something I've often wondered since learning all this is if Venus had a standard orbit - would human cultures today still have a similar degree of attention towards the concept of resurrection? I'm not so sure.