Gallu 245184 225960723 2008-07-16T05:41:50Z RussBot 279219 Robot: moving pages out of redirected category {{Mesopotamian myth (demons)}} In [[Sumer]]ian and [[Akkad]]ian ([[Babylonian]] and [[Assyria]]n) [[mythology]], '''Gallu'''<ref Name="Morris">{{cite book | last = Morris | first = John | title = The new nation | publisher = | date = 1880 | location = Original from Oxford University | pages = Pages 40 & 311 (volume 3 of 5) | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=YwMDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA311&vq=Gallu&dq=Gallu+demon&as_brr=1 | doi = | id = }}</ref> (also called '''gallu demon''' or '''galla''' (Akkadian: '''''gallû'''''<ref Name="Muss-Arnolt">{{cite book | last = Muss-Arnolt | first = William | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = A Concise Dictionary of the Assyrian Language | publisher = Reuther & Reichard; Lemcke & Büchner; etc., etc | date =1905 | location = Original from Harvard University | pages = page 216 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=i0TmOm5Kj40C&pg=PA216&dq=Gallu+demon&as_brr=1&ie=ISO-8859-1 | doi = | id = }}</ref>)) is a great underworld [[demon]] or [[devil]]. Gallu demons hauled unfortunate victims off to the [[underworld]]. The gallas are one of seven devils (or "the offspring of hell") of Babylonian theology who can be appeased by the sacrifice of a lamb at their altars.<ref Name="Brigs&Howell">{{cite book | coauthors = Charles Augustus Briggs, Crawford Howell Toy | title = Essays in Modern Theology and Related Subjects | publisher = C. Scribner's sons | date = 1911 | location = Original from Harvard University | pages = Pages 155 -158 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=gG8eLfvaqlYC&pg=PA157&dq=Gallu+demon&as_brr=1&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA157,M1 | doi = | id = }}</ref> [[Inana]] (or [[Ishtar]]) is accompanied by galla(s) as she is on a journey to the underworld.<ref name="Brigs&Howell"/> ==See also== *[[Sumerian mythology]] ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Mesopotamian mythology]] [[bg:Галлу]] [[es:Gallu]]