Serer religion maintains a public institution unusual among West African traditional religions for having neither gone underground nor been folded into Islam or Christianity: the annual Xoy, a divination ceremony performed openly, typically in the town of Fatick in Senegal, by the Saltigue, a hereditary order of Serer priest-diviners who are understood to receive knowledge directly through their relationship with Roog and the pangool. At the Xoy, held before the start of the rainy season, the assembled Saltigue deliver public forecasts covering the coming agricultural year, rainfall, harvests, and sometimes wider social and political matters, drawing crowds that include journalists, officials and ordinary Senegalese well beyond practising Serer traditionalists, so that the ceremony functions simultaneously as religious rite and as a recognised, reported item of national interest.
The Saltigue's authority is understood to run back to Roog as ultimate source, transmitted and mediated, as in most Serer religious practice, through the pangool rather than claimed as unmediated contact with the high god himself. The continued public prominence of the Xoy, rather than its confinement to private household practice, is one of the clearer pieces of evidence that Serer traditional religion in Senegal has retained an organised, visible institutional life into the present rather than surviving only as folklore or private family custom.