Women in charge

Indeed.
There is ample evidence that the male portion of the Greek Pantheon was a later addition, and that the older Greek pantheon was primarily female.

Obviously a lot of the Roman Pantheon was either adopted from the Greek or conflated with it so much, even in antiquity, that in many cases it is effectively impossible to disentangle them with any degree of certainty.

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Just a random search ….
Greek women had virtually no political rights of any kind and were controlled by men at nearly every stage of their lives. The most important duties for a city-dwelling woman were to bear children--preferably male--and to run the household.
www.penn.museum/sites/Greek_world/women.html#:~:text=column&text=Greek%20women%20had%20virtually%20no,and%20to%20run%20the%20household.

Women in Classical Athens had no legal personhood and were assumed to be part of the oikos (household) headed by the male kyrios (master). In Athenian society, the legal term of a wife was known as a damar, a word that is derived from the root meaning of "to subdue" or "to tame".[9] Until marriage, women were under the guardianship of their fathers or other male relatives; once married, the husband became a woman's kyrios. While the average age to get married for men was around 30, the average age for women was 14. This system was implemented as a way to help ensure that girls were virgins when they wed. It also made it possible for a husband to choose his wife's next husband, should she survive him.[10] As women were barred from conducting legal proceedings, the kyrios would do so on their behalf.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Greece

Women in the ancient Greek world had few rights in comparison to male citizens. Unable to vote, own land, or inherit, a woman's place was in the home and her purpose in life was the rearing of children. That is a general description and when considering Greek women one should remember our sources are incomplete and not always unbiased.

Unfortunately, information regarding specific city-states is often lacking regarding women and is almost always from male authors. Only in Athens can their status and role be described in any great detail. Neither are we sure of the practical and everyday application of the rules and laws that have survived from antiquity. We do know that Spartan women were treated somewhat differently than in other states. For example, they had to do physical training like men, were permitted to own land, and could drink wine.

Women in the ancient Greek world had few rights in comparison to male citizens. Unable to vote, own land, or inherit, a woman's place was in the home and her pu…

The reason for that is very simple. In those times very little was written down. Information was communicated orally, so what we know is very shaky and just guesses based on what artifacts the archaeologists can uncover. The pre-Christian pagan culture was often very brutal with human sacrifice and all. I studied it a little myself, but also don't recall any reference to homosexuality. There is evidence they worshipped goddesses though from what we can make out. That does not necessarily imply the women were boss. As far as I know, no civilisation has ever existed that has been controlled by women. Blighty could be the first.

The Mosuo are very interesting. They're a matriarchal tribe who practise 'walking marriage'. Also the warrior queens of Kush.

The anti-witching laws came about as I understood it, not by any Christian creed so much as the practical problems in what these witches were up to. Far from being innocent, or in some cases it may well have been naivety, the witches were going around plying their trade which involved a lot of poisoning of people and what people regarded as fakery, as per one needed the correct charms to make one's crop grow so one would not die of starvation. The thing was life was incredibly hard in those days just to survive and I understand the witching thing got out of hand as successive laws were passed. The witches themselves were around the bend and as they saw them they considered that they had been entirely possessed by the devil and had no soul left, hence they were no longer human and just a living form of the devil that was intent on killing them. Perhaps it was all those crazy concoctions they took themselves which contributed to the craziness, but you have someone who will run at you with a knife and try to kill you, then to save the village the witch had to be got rid of. It was a primitive society which we would find impossible to imagine. Prisons mainly came about in Victorian times as a humane was to deal with criminals. This was pre-science as well. The bible along with classical texts was what they considered to be correct just as we rely on science to inform us of what is correct, and of course we get it wrong a lot even today. The good news was the Christian creed was slowly civilising us. We would still be barbarians had we never applied it.

The Christian church was ruthless and witchcraft was a rival. So they suppressed it . Just as religion is a rival to the doctrine of the CCP so China suppresses it. It’s not rocket science.