Well specifically in Stargate the “gods” were literal aliens that actually treated humans as sort of cattle to host their young, mine their ore, serve as their armies. All that said they do end up visiting places with NA indigenous people and they do actually have a good relationship with their “gods” which staying in line with the theme of the show were a different set of advanced aliens.

It’s pretty much the plot of at least up to where I’ve seen so far. Go through Stargate find isolated human culture who worship aliens as gods, say hey they’re not gods, join the resistance! Here have free guns.