the cult of goga falls within folk religion and therefore his followers include people from all faiths. goga is popular as a devta who protects his followers from snakes and other evils. he has been deified as a snake demigod and is a prominent figure among those who follow the nāga cult in what is now rajasthan and since the seventeenth century has been worshipped in the western himalayas also, possibly as a consequence of migration there from rajasthan.