Editing Gallu (section)

== Role in mythology ==

Gallu demons hauled unfortunate victims off to the [[underworld]]. They were one of seven devils (or "the offspring of hell") of Babylonian theology that could be appeased by the sacrifice of a lamb at their altars.<ref Name="Brigs&Howell">{{Cite book|last1=Briggs|first1=Charles August|last2=Toy|first2=Crawford Howell|author-link1=Charles Augustus Briggs|author-link2=Crawford Howell Toy|title = Essays in Modern Theology and Related Subjects  | publisher = C. Scribner's sons  | year = 1911  | location = Original from Harvard University   | pages = [https://archive.org/details/essaysinmodernt00toygoog/page/n181 155]–158  | url = https://archive.org/details/essaysinmodernt00toygoog   | quote = Gallu demon.  }}</ref>

The goddess [[Inanna]] was pursued by ''gallu'' demons after being escorted from the Underworld by Galatura and Kuryara.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Black|first1=Jeremy|last2=Cunningham|first2=Graham|last3=Flückiger-Hawker|first3=Esther|last4=Robson|first4=Eleanor|last5=Taylor|first5=John|last6=Zólyomi|first6=Gábor|author-link1=Jeremy Black (assyriologist)|author-link4=Eleanor Robson|title=Inana's descent to the netherworld|url=http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr141.htm|website=[[Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature]]|publisher=Oxford University|access-date=22 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="Brigs&Howell"/> In the ''Descent'', it is stated that said demons <blockquote>know no food, know no drink, eat no flour offering, drink no [[libation]]. They never enjoy the pleasures of marital embrace, never have any sweet children to kiss. They snatch the son from a man’s knee. They make the bride leave the house of her father in law.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P468903|title=Archival view of P468903|website=Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative|publisher=UCLA}}</ref></blockquote>