List of deities of wine and beer

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.

• Abundantia - Roman Goddess of abundance (see also: Habonde).
• Acan - Mayan God of alcohol.
• Accla - Incan female keepers of the sacred fires (who also brewed beer).
• 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.
• Albina - Arcadian, British & Irish white barley goddess.
• Ampelos - Greek lover of Dionysus transformed into the grapevine.
• Amaethon - Welsh God of Agriculture.
• Amphictyonis - Greek goddess of wine and friendship.
• Aristaeus - Greco-Roman god of rustic, rural arts, including making wine, beer, mead and kumis.
• Arnemetia - Celtic River Goddess (Her name is connected with nemeton, “sacred grove,” which means it’s the best place to find brewing water).
• 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.
• Bhairava/Bharani - Indian/Hindu God of Soma (also associated with sacred beer).
• Brigid of Kildare/Saint Brigid - patron saint of brewing.
• Byggvir - Norse God of Barley (and, thus, beer).
• Ceraon - who watched over the mixing of wine with water.
• Dea Latis - Celtic goddess of beer.
• 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.
• Hathor - Egyptian goddess of love, passion, wine, and drunkenness.
• Inari - Shinto goddess of sake.
• Li Bai - Chinese god of wine and sage of poetry.
• Liber/Liber Pater - 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 - Mesopotamian 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.
• Osiris - Egyptian god of beer and wine.
• Radegast - Slavic god of drinking and hospitality.
• Raugutiene and Raugupatis - Baltic God and Goddess of fermentation and beer.
• Silenus - Greek god of wine, wine pressing, and drunkenness.
• Siris - Mesopotamian goddess of beer. ^[1]
• Soma - Hindu god of alcoholic beverages.
• Sucellus - Celtic god of agriculture, forests, and of the alcoholic drinks of the Gauls.
• Tao Yuanming - Chinese spirit of wine.
• Tenemit - Egyptian goddess of beer. ^[2]
• Tenenet - Egyptian goddess of childbirth and beer.
• Tezcatzontecati- Aztec god of pulque, of drunkenness and fertility (one of the Ometochtli).
• Varuni - Hindu goddess of wine.
• Yasigi - African goddess of beer (depicted as the ultimate party girl).
• Yi-ti - Chinese god, (said to have created the first rice and grape wines).

See also

• Beer goddess
• Religion and alcohol

References

1. Ebeling, Erich; Weidner, Ernst F. Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie (in German). p. 442.
2. Wilkinson, Richard H. (2003). The Complete Gods And Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 174. ISBN   0-500-05120-8 . Retrieved 31 March 2024.