barham:
restless rest
Used pillow, fragments of thinking process
2023
The restlessness in labour, is for rest. Among many things we find barham to be, we find a practice of making resting places for something restless (be it spirit, or emotion, or thought), often as mounds of earth raised a bit from the ground; so here, barham is a pillow which holds a process of labour.
Patriarchy manifests barham as a father-figure, and brahmanism appropriates it further as a creator-father; taking away from the fact that barham itself is a creation, and its practice, whether mediated through earth, or paper, or cloth, or thread, or language, is itself an ancestor.
