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Jarilo (Yarilo, Jaro, Cyrillic Ярило) is the Slavic god of spring fertility, represented as a young man dressed in white with a wheat wreath on his head, wheat ears in his right hand and a human head in his left hand. Christianity associates him with Saint George.

The slavic root jar or yar means to be active, to activate.

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Slavic gods

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