1531 BC) requests, "May the evil udug and the evil galla stand aside. May the good udug and good galla be present."[11][12] Sometimes the word udug does not even refer to a specific demon, but rather functions as an umbrella term for all the different demons in Mesopotamian demonology.[13] On account of the udug's capacity for both good and ill, Graham Cunningham argues that "the term daimon seems preferable" over the term "demon", which is the one normally used to describe it.[14]