This is from Herbord’s Life of Otto which speaks of their (weatern Pomeranians’) God “Gerovito, qui lingua Latina Mars dicitur…” For Thietmar’s Radegost and Svarazic see here.
It is interesting that some have tried to connect Radegost with the idea of a deified Radagaisus the Goth and, at the same time, you have the margrave Gero who ravaged the Slavic tribes of the area on and off between 937 and 965 years before the adventures of Bishop Otto of Bamberg. Did some Slavs simply deify Gero? After all there was that tale of Svantevit being merely a deification of Saint Vitus. Still that latter tale is not very believable and, in any event, Iariovidius was a name present in ancient times (see also here).
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