Where have all the goddesses gone?

Reading "Anthony and Cleopatra" has had me continuing with some thoughts that surfaced several years ago. Where have all the goddesses gone?
      The Egyptians, Romans, Greeks and Assyrians of the ancient world had many powerful and influential goddesses. Isis, Astarte, Aphrodite, Juno to name just a few. These were considered not just to be goddesses of women's issues, but powerful deities to whom everyone prayed and made offerings.  The Jews were not goddess-friendly, they had the bullying and judgemental Yahweh. (Even they had a goddess, now largely forgotten about, a female being known as the Shekinah, whose role was to look after the things of earth; Yahweh was the god of the universe, but the Shekinah looked after everyday things down here, but I would guess that she still had to report to him). Mohammed allowed no goddesses either. (Perhaps a harsh, desert climate breeds harsh male gods - goddesses seem to be always associated with water and fertility and lushness - Isis shed the Tear that watered Egypt through the passage of the Nile, Aphrodite was the goddess of love born out of the sea, her virginity magically reinstated by a sacred spring). Then Christianity came along and did away with goddesses too. A harsh god and an inscrutable Son, who both moved in mysterious ways too complex for humans to understand, unlike goddesses who always had something of the human about them, even human-like failings.
       I recently read something written by a Christian theologian (male, naturally) who said that the Holy Spirit was male, too. How can a spirit have a gender? And if we are going to allot gender to the Holy Spirit why can't it be female? Outrageous. So the whole wretched Trinity is male, is it?  Thanks a lot. The female principle is not to be allowed a look-in at all. We're allowed to have the Virgin Mary, but only if we're Catholic or high-church Anglican. (More on the Virgin another time).
       Here's a thought. Perhaps it would be a good thing for the world if we reinstated the female principle, replace unconditional eternal judgement with unconditional eternal love. Perhaps we'd be more interested in creating than destroying? Perhaps it would have been better for the planet if we'd stuck with the goddesses, and seen the gods for what they are; an attempt by the male principle to get power and keep it in the hands of men.
      And yet another reason why I am not a Christian.