Hi I've been thinking about this sort of thing for the past couple of years and I think the worship of the masculine goes back to our earliest civilisations.
The big crux in history that I can deduce is when King Ank en Aten attempted to shut down the priest class and allow only worship of the generating force of the Sun, as this they knew was the reason they had food to eat, and also the reason we have a planet at all. So the King named his Son Tut ank Aten which means 'living image of the Aten'. They drove the priesthood out and told the people that the rule was to be shared between man and woman. We know this because the statues erected during this time were very different from what was erected before or after. The statues were given both attributes of the man and the woman as to show their equality.
Inversely the Priesthood worshipped the Moon. Also known as Amun or 'A Moon'. They would extort the populace into doing their bidding and use the darkness to do their works in secret. Sounds like confession? Same thing. You would have to confess your 'sins' and the priests would absolve you for money or favours. This was not acceptable to the family of Aten. The battles ensued, with Tut ank Aten being killed in a battle by getting run over by a chariot wheel. Nefertiti ran with the daughters of Aten West and that's all we know about what happened to her. But the young King Tut ank Aten was not able to leave his legacy, instead the priests changed his name post humus to Tutankamen and effectively brainwashed us all for the past 3 thousand years.
The Son is the Sun and we are his children, look up that ye may see the face of GOD!