Word: billiken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some dominies were humorous. Buddha, they readily grasped, was something to joke about-a funny cross-legged little figure like a Billiken. Others were taciturn, others sorrowful, others inspired to righteous wrath; but on one point all were agreed - it would be a horrible thing to permit the effigy of so noted an infidel to appear in the midst of a Christian city. It would be like reminding men of the lost rites of Astarte, like resurrecting the god, Priapus, or setting up the image of the Golden Bull of Tyre...