A chillum, or chilam, is a pipe used by Indian Sadhu holy men, [Dolf Hartsuiker. [http://www.adolphus.nl/sadhus/stories/holysmoke.html Holy Smoke] . "Sadhus and Yogis of India".] Rastafarians and by many recreational drug users to smoke cannabis, opium, tobacco, etc. The chillum is a conical pipe usually made out of clay, cow's horn, glass, stone, or wood. Chillums have been used since at least the 18th century as pipes by Sadhus in India to imbibe cannabis. [ [http://www.trocadero.com/paha/items/495809/item495809store.html A bidri chillum, India, 18th Century] ] They have also recently been used by Rastafarians [ [http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20020224/arts/arts1.html Spotlight on Rastafarian sects] ] [ [http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030427/ent/ent3.html 'Rasta in Transition' launched at Livity Restaurant ] ] in reasoning sessions and grounations.
Rastafari Ceremony
In the Rastafari ceremony, the ritual chillum used is made of a cow's horn or wood fitted with a large, conical wooden bowl and with a long tube made of rubber or plastic. The chillum is called a chalice based on a quote from the Biblical book of Deuteronomy. [ [http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/godkings/rastafari.html The Rastafari by Maria Baptist] ] Thanks and praises are offered to the Rastafari God Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia before the chillum is smoked. [ [http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_spirit1.shtml The Rastafarians by Leonard E. Barrett 1988] ]
References
ee also
* Spiritual use of cannabis
* Smoking pipe (non-tobacco)
* Bong
* Legality of cannabis by country