Jarylo or Yarilo (along with other alternative names) is considered a god of vegetation, fertility, and springtime in East and South Slavic beliefs. This vibrant life-energy was deemed holy in the pre-Christian Slavic faith, and the deity representing this divine energy was named Jarovit, or affectionately Jarilo. Until the 19th century in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Serbia, folk celebrations known as Jarilo occurred in late spring or early summer. Initial scholars of Slavic mythology identified within them remnants of pagan rituals dedicated to a named spring god. In northern Croatia and southern Slovenia, particularly in White Carniola, comparable spring celebrations were known as Jurjevo or Zeleni Juraj or Zeleni Jurij, nominally honoring St. George, and quite akin to the Jarilo festivals of various Slavic nations. The sole surviving historical reference to this deity is a 12th-century account of the missionary German bishop Otto of Bamberg, who, in his efforts to convert the pagan groups of Wendish and Polabian Slavs, came across celebrations dedicated to the war-god Gerovit in the towns of Wolgast and Havelberg. Gerovit is elieved to be a German origin of the Slavic name Jarovit.
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