the “goddess” myth was made up by feminists, who say there was once a heaven where women ruled until those evil men came in and ruined paradise.
The bad news is that the Linear B tablets from Pylos and Mycenae are full of information about female slaves in Mycenae (they were used to process and weave linen, and often were kidnapped from all over the Agean sea), and these tablets mention the male gods of the classic age Greek pantheon.
Pre mycenean Crete is called Minoan, and indeed the buildings dug up there have lots of women portrayed who might be goddesses, both as statues and wall paintings. but until they decipher Linear A, it is only a guess that there were goddesses and women ruled. After all, most countries with “goddesses” and “priestesses” (e.g. Mesopotamia, with Istar) didn’t have female equality either.
Even if there are great goddesses or even queens, it doesn’t mean that the average woman had any rights.
Those Central Asian invaders of the book are the Indo Europeans (think “white men” who are so hated by the PC)...
Yet before the Dorian invasions, the Ionican/Myceneans were Indo Europeans, as were the Hittites, and many think the Minoans, like the Etruscans, came from Lydia (Asia minor, now Turkey) and also spoke an Indo European language, but until the Linear A tablets are deciphered, that too is a guess.
As mentioned in my previous answer, the societies you mention were well after this process had already begun around 4,000 BC I have not read any female archeologists who say there once was a heaven which evil men ruined. What they do say is that relations between the sexes appear to have been egalitarian and cooperative as opposed to dominant and submissive. So am I to take it you prefer a society where, if a female, you have to be dominated and be submissive. Been there, done that, got away from it, don’t plan to do it again.
As to proofs, as you point out women in Crete seemed to have an important position before the society collapsed around 1500 BC. They were protected by their ships from the major invasions. When many of the ships were probably destroyed by a Sontorini tsunami, as well as the shoreline infrastructure to build and repair them, Crete became vulnerable to invaders. In central Europe before 4,000 BC, the communities lacked fortifications, indicating a peaceful society. As more DNA studies are made we will know if burials indicate that men went to live with the woman’s family (matrilocal and possibly matrilineal) or the women went to the man’s family (patrilocal/patrilineal). I too look forward to the day that Linear A is readable