(Latinized as Gerovitus) West Slavonic god, venerated in Pomerania. The jar component in his name means ‘violent’, ‘fiery’. At the time of the conversion of the West Slavs, Jarovit was compared by one writer to → Mars;...

Jarilo (Cyrillic languages: Ярило, transliterated to latin alphabet as Yarilo or Iarilo; Polish: Jaryło; Serbian/Croatian: Jura, Juraj, or Djordјe) or Jarovit (sometimes Gerovit from its latinized form Gerovitus) was a major male Proto-Slavic...