It is not true, however, that this picture of female deity can simply be read as an image of women in those societies and their relation to males. (religion-online.org)
In Egyptian mythology, the golden sun disk symbolized the Eye of Re, a potent female deity who embodied all of Amun's daughters and chief protector goddesses. (discovermagazine.com)
(The dove, a visible sign of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament accounts of Jesus» baptism, was a bird often linked to female deities in the ancient Near East.) (religion-online.org)