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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.

  • 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




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