Betoken

Thus our own Christmas fir was decked as a symbol of the celestial sun tree. The lights, according to Professor Schwartz, represent the flashes of lightning overhead, the golden apples, nuts and balls symbolize the sun, the moon and the stars, while the little animals hung in the branches betoken sacrifices made in gratitude to the sun god.

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The variations in the flora also need more exact analysis before we can say what they betoken.

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There be other 2 signes in often use of which the first is made thus + and betokeneth more : the other is thus made – and betokeneth lesse.

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During the fight, we ran forward a few paces, but a heavy, rushing flight betokened an easy victory, and the stranger flew away.

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