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

## External links

* List of Goddesses

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