Uttaranchali Folk Gods...

Till my college years I have been in Uttarakhand and visited lot of places on various ocassions. Religion is in blood of uttaranchalis as they are in Devbhoomi. They worship different gods, trying to gather information on them and some of them are listed below..
Khetrapal
Narsingh
Sidhwa
Vidhwa
Vandev
Jakh
Naag
Aidi
Aanchari
Bhumyal
Bhairon
Chandi Maata
I will keep adding more as and when I will have more information. Request the Uttaranchali visitors to provide information/tales/stories on these if they know any.

Golu Devta Temple in Kumaon near Nainital

Golu Devta Temple is near Nainital and is one of most visited temple in Kumaon. Most of the tourist who visit Nainital try to visit this temple while returning from Nainital.
This is said Golu Devta is incarnation of Lord Shita (Gaur Bhairav) and is worshiped all over the Kumaon.
There are a lot of stories (Tales) about Golu Devta and couple of them are already published on Wikipedia and other websites.
I have been there recently and I must say these temples make you think of God in real sense, where you see nature and you believe that at some point of time the Gods must been living on these hills. You can see lots of bells offered by the devotees after their wishes are fullfilled after visiting the temples.
There are couple of other temples spread all over kumaon and most famous among them are in Champwat, Chitai and Ghorakhal.