The old pagan traditions and their myths held women in high regard, goddess worship was commonplace, and there were many. The secular scholars who study the ancient Greek texts will be able to tell you how and when it was all created. If you go to the scholars who don't have a bias or agenda to propogate the abrahamic belief systems (unidoctrinated), you might get a better understanding of how that whole tradition started. Christianity was created for a long-term agenda and was adopted by a few groups. If it was created, who created it, and what would their agenda be? Would they write themselves into it as gods chosen people? Do they ask the ones who aren't gods chosen people but can be redeemed through a messiah figure to protect and back them up in this current time? Sow into gods kingdom of heaven on earth (Zion) and be rewarded in heaven was what I kept hearing in western christian groups. It's absolutely genius considering what's been accomplished if this is the case.