38:7 · According to Koch (see the "Bibliography" in the Appendices) this is an early Germanic time sign for the season of spring.
    The other signs in this particular system are , summer, , autumn, and , winter.
    Compare with , the graph for Aries, the ram, and that period of the year that begins at the spring equinox.
    The almost identical is mentioned by one source as one of the alchemists' signs for smoke.