Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Yarovit (Gerovit) — the war- and fertility-god of the Baltic Slavs at Wolgast and Havelberg, a fierce god of war and spring vigour identified with Mars,
Rugievit — the seven-faced war-god of the Baltic Slavs of Rügen, worshipped at Charenza, his colossal idol bearing seven faces, seven swords at his belt,
Kupala (Ivan Kupala) — the Slavic deity and festival of midsummer, water, fire, love, and fertility, of leaping bonfires, floating flower-wreaths,
Devana (Dziewanna) — the Slavic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and untamed forests, a virgin huntress of the woods and the Slavic counterpart of Diana
Triglav (“Three-Headed”) — the three-headed god of the Baltic Slavs worshipped at Szczecin, his heads ruling heaven, earth, and the underworld, his eyes
Svetovid (Svantevit) — the supreme four-headed war- and fertility-god of the Baltic Slavs, the all-seeing “world-seer” of the great temple at Arkona, lord
Khors — the Slavic god of the sun-disc and the cyclical journey of light, a solar (and possibly lunar) deity of the Kievan pantheon, the shining orb of
Marzanna (Morana) — the Slavic goddess of winter, death, and the dying of nature, wife and slayer of the spring-god Jarilo, whose straw effigy is ritually
Jarilo (Yarilo) — the Slavic dying-and-rising god of spring, vegetation, and fertility, son of Perun stolen to the underworld, who returns each spring,
The Zoryas — the Slavic goddesses of dawn and dusk, auroral sisters (Morning and Evening Stars) who open and close the gates of heaven for the sun-god