Unfortunately Venerating/worshiping female entities/statues pretty much encompasses all religious belief systems even today just as was done in ancient times...and the very thing God spoke out against when he said.... I am the Lord your God,.....You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below..... You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God"...Exodus 20:1-6......
Here we have Kuan Yin the Goddess of Mercy in the Buddist faith
..Female idols have been since ancient times as seen here with the Persian Goddess Anahita
...and here with the Ancient Sumerian Goddess....
And again here with the Roman Goddess Isis