Religion:List of deities of wine and beer

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Deities of wine and beer include a number of agricultural deities associated with the fruits and grains used to produce alcoholic beverages, as well as the processes of fermentation and distillation.

  • Acan, Mayan God of alcohol.
  • Acratopotes, one of Dionysus' companions and a drinker of unmixed wine.
  • Aegir, a Norse divinity associated with ale, beer and mead.
  • Aizen Myō-ō, Shinto god of tavern keepers.
  • Ampelus, Greek lover of Dionysus transformed into the grapevine.
  • Amphictyonis, Greek goddess of wine and friendship.
  • Ash, Egyptian God of Wine and Oases.
  • Bacchus, Roman god of wine, usually identified with the Greek Dionysus.
  • Ba-Maguje, Hausa spirit of drunkenness.
  • Bes, Egyptian god, protector of the home, and patron of beer brewers.
  • Biersal/Bierasal/Bieresal, Germanic kobold of the beer cellar.
  • Ceraon, who watched over the mixing of wine with water.
  • Brigid of Kildare, patron saint of brewing.
  • Dionysus, Greek god of wine, usually identified with the Roman Bacchus.
  • Du Kang, Chinese Sage of wine. Inventor of wine and patron to the alcohol industry.
  • Inari, Shinto goddess of sake.
  • Li Bai, Chinese god of wine and sage of poetry.
  • Liber, a Roman god of wine.
  • Liu Ling, Chinese god of wine. One of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
  • Mayahuel, Mexican goddess of pulque.
  • Methe, Greek personification of drinking and drunkenness.
  • Nephthys, Egyptian goddess of beer.
  • Ninkasi, Sumerian goddess of beer.
  • Nokhubulwane, Zulu goddess of the rainbow, agriculture, rain, and beer.
  • Oenotropae, Greek goddesses, "the women who change (anything into) wine".
  • Ogoun, Yoruba/West African/Voodoo god of rum.
  • Ometochtli, Aztec gods of excess.
  • Siduri, wise Mesopotamian female divinity of beer and wine in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
  • Silenus, Greek god of wine, wine pressing, and drunkenness.
  • Siris, Mesopotamian goddess of beer.
  • Sucellus, Celtic god of agriculture, forests, and of the alcoholic drinks of the Gauls.
  • Tao Yuanming, Chinese spirit of wine.
  • Tenenet, Egyptian goddess of childbirth and beer.
  • Varuni, Hindu goddess of wine.

See also

  • Beer goddess
  • Religion and alcohol

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