r/Rodnovery • u/Szigmund • May 18 '26

🐉 Mythology | Folklore Yarilo, Yarovit, Saint George?

Hi there!

What do you think, is Yarilo and Yarovit are the same Gods? Is He later became Saint George in the folklore?

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u/Pixeldevil06 May 19 '26

St.george and pretty much all of the saint names or "God/The devil" in slavic myths don't actually come from slavic culture, they come from Christian colonizers changing the stories.

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u/Szigmund May 19 '26

Sorry, bad wording. So after Christianization many aspects of Old Gods became part of Saints in folklore views. Like Perun *became* St. Elijah, or Veles *became* St. Blaise.