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The Gala and Pilipili were mentioned by Enhuanna thousands of years ago in her hymns to Inanna. Enhuanna is someone I totally have a historical crush on, as the child of Sargon of Akkad [sic], she basically reworked the entire mesopotamian pantheon. In her hymns you can read her spiritual journey, her emotions, her struggles. There is a reason why her hymns have been so influential in Homeric hymns and Biblibcal psalms.
My favourite introduction to Enhuanna is this article:
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2109/hymn-to-inanna/
But if you want lots of hymns with context about her I recommend "Inanna, Lady of the Largest Heart" by Betty Meador.

The Pilipili specifically are references in these lines:

>80-90: When she had removed the great punishment from her body, she invoked blessings upon it; she caused it to be named the pilipili. She broke the spear and as if she were a man ... gave her a weapon. When she had ... punishment, it is not ... She ... the door of the house of wisdom, she makes known its interior. Those who do not respect her suspended net do not escape ... when she suspends the meshes of her net. The man she has called by name she does not hold in esteem. Having approached the woman, she breaks the weapon and gives her a spear. The male jicgisajkec, the nisub and the female jicgi ritual officiants, after having ... punishment, moaning ... The ecstatic, the transformed pilipili, the kurjara and the sajursaj ... Lament and song ... They exhaust themselves with weeping and grief, they ... laments.

We also see trannies come up in "Descent of Inanna into the Underworld". Which is interpretited as ethiological mythology behind the Gala. Basically, a type of story that's trying to explain something in nature or certain cultural practices. In this story we hear how they were created and saved Inanna out of the Underworld.
Picrel would be what Gala looked like. Knowing French goes a long way if you wanna read very deeply into this topic.