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Definitely not. It's frequent to have the roles reversed. Another couple examples would be Khonsu (moon) and Sekhmet (sun) in Kemetic myths, or the Mesopotamian Sin/Nanna (moon) and Aya (sun), though there was also a sun God (Utu/Shamash) and moon Goddess (Ningal), and of course in Egypt you also have the two eyes of Horus (sun and moon respectively), etc, etc.

The order/chaos thing is mainly a Mesopotamian thing and similarly variable and largely depends on how the culture in question viewed gender roles. It could be argued that men are the source of chaos given our penchant for warfare, where as women provide order and stability due to their focus on child-rearing and home keeping. Notwithstanding women's propensity to stir the pot to get men do their violence for them...

In Indo-European myths it's common for the masculine deity to represent the mind, and the feminine the body, (ie. heaven vs earth) albeit with some variability there too.

Fwiw, that's part of the reason you get the Judeo-Christian notion of "God the Father" (actually from Plato, eg. Timaeus 28c), since mind is also synonymous with the spirit/heaven/good, which goes part and parcel with general denigration of the sacred feminine as being evil and corrupt, since in these kinds of misanthropic ideologies the flesh is essentially considered a prison and source of torment that one must attempt to escape. That's especially pronounced in so-called Gnostic Christinanity, as opposed to Hermeticism where no such contrast exists.

So it really depends on the context. There's no absolute one-true-way, even within a single culture necessary. The map is not the territory.