Which god(s) would be in charge of caffeine and caffeination?
Asking for a friend.
I'm thinking Hermes or Dionysius maybe? Or maybe Nyx... 
@zebratron2084 Inari. "god of success, prosperity, rice, agriculture, industry, craftsmanship, smiths, agriculture, and tea"
@Aradia Oh that is indeed a very good one. When did coffee reach Japan exactly? Pretty early I would imagine...
Dammit sis I did NOT need another four-hour wikicrawl in my life, I...
Hmm, you know, maybe I did. Thank you, dear. 
@Aradia Introduced somewhere around 1700, evidently, but that certainly wouldn't preclude Inari from taking a hand in it once it showed up! That does raise intriguing questions about what they (I LOVE that "they" seems to be the most appropriate pronoun for them 
) would have been up to in the early Tokugawa...
(Bea? Val?)
@zebratron2084 Oh, I hadn’t seen that and didn’t know about Waaqa. That is probably a better answer.
@zebratron2084 Depends how restrictive you mean “god”. There’s a Muslim saint (Abadir Umar ar-Rida) who was the legendary founder of Harar, the part of Ethiopia where coffee was domesticated. I think he deserves some credit too, especially since the Islam world is largely responsible for popularizing coffee in the first place, although I don’t know enough about Islam to say whether he or Allah should get the shout-out.
I'm (pleasantly) surprised at how much thought people have put into this already. Saves me energy thinking for myself.
Oh here we go. I feel like a fool for not going straight to East Africa first.
Looks like the best claimant is Waaqa, sky god of the Oromo people. https://procaffeination.com/who-is-the-god-of-coffee-procaffeination-lists-the-top-contenders/
And here, it's Double Deities Thursday so have a bonus Mayan cocoa god free of charge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek_Chuaj
There is no “official” God of Coffee because coffee is too new! It was not discovered by the world outside of the Ethiopian forests until the 9th Century, long after…
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