Editing Ho-Chunk mythology (section)

==Red Horn==
[[Image:Spiro red horn statue HRoe 2005.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A stone pipe bowl nicknamed "Big Boy" that some archaeologists think may depict Red Horn. It was found at the [[Spiro Mounds|Spiro]] Site.]]
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[[Red Horn (Siouan deity)|Red Horn]] (also known as 'He Who Wears (Human) Faces on His Ears'<ref>Paul Radin, ''Winnebago Hero Cycles: A Study in Aboriginal Literature'' (Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1948) 124. John Harrison, The Giant or The Morning Star, translated by Oliver LaMere, in Paul Radin, Notebooks, Winnebago III, #11a, Freeman Number 3892 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society) Story 8, pp. 92-117 [112-114], where he is called [http://hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.MorningStar%26HisFriend.html#Anchor-The-48213 ''Wągíšjahorùšika''], {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005015036/http://hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.MorningStar%26HisFriend.html |date=2008-10-05 }} "Wears Man Faces on His Ears". Paul Radin, "Intcohorúcika," Winnebago Notebooks (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Library) #14, pp. 1-67 [65-67]. Thomas Foster, ''Foster's Indian Record and Historical Data'' (Washington, D. C.: 1876-1877) vol. 1, #3: p. 3 col. 1. Told by Little Decorah, a member of the Thunderbird Clan. Kathleen Danker and Felix White Sr., ''The Hollow of Echoes'' (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978) 24-25. Informant: Felix White Sr. W. C. McKern, "A Winnebago Myth," ''Yearbook, Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee,'' 9 (1929): 215-230.</ref>) is found in the [[oral tradition]]s of the  [[Iowa people|Iowa]],<ref>"6. ''Wąkx!istowi'', the Man with the Human Head Earrings," Alanson Skinner, "Traditions of the Iowa Indians," ''The Journal of American Folklore,'' vol. 38, #150 (Oct.-Dec., 1925): 427-506 [457-458]. He also appears in a Twins myth, where his is called ''Wankistogre'', "Man-in-the-Earring". Robert Small (Otoe, Wolf Clan) and Julia Small (Otoe), "Dore and Wahredua," in Alanson Skinner, "Traditions of the Iowa Indians," ''The Journal of American Folklore'', vol. 38, #150 (Oct.-Dec., 1925): 427-506 [440-441].</ref> and Ho-Chunk (whose ethnology was recorded by anthropologist [[Paul Radin]],  1908–1912).<ref>For the ethnology of the Hocągara, see Paul Radin, The Winnebago Tribe (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990 [1923]).</ref> The Red Horn Cycle depicts his adventures with Turtle,  the [[Thunderbird (mythology)|thunderbird]] Storms-as-He-Walks (''Mą’e-manįga'') and others who contest a race of [[giant (mythology)|giants]], the ''Wąge-rucge'' or "Man-Eaters",  who have been killing human beings whom Red Horn has pledged to help. Red Horn eventually took a red haired giant woman as a wife. Archaeologists have speculated that Red Horn is a mythic figure in [[Mississippian culture|Mississippian]] art,  represented on a number of [[Southeastern Ceremonial Complex]] (SECC) artifacts.<ref>F. Kent Reilly III, "The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro," in {{cite book |editor1= F. Kent Reilly |editor2=James Garber  |  title = Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms |  url = https://archive.org/details/ancientobjectssa0000unse  |  url-access = registration  | publisher = [[University of Texas Press]] | year = 2004 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/ancientobjectssa0000unse/page/39 39–55] |  isbn = 978-0-292-71347-5}} In the same volume, it is argued that the Mississippian "Birdman" is also Red Horn. See James A. Brown, "On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography", 56-106.</ref> Hall has shown that the mythic cycle of Red Horn and his sons has some interesting analogies with the [[Maya Hero Twins|Hero Twins]] mythic cycle of [[Mesoamerica]].<ref>Robert L. Hall, "The Cultural Background of Mississippian Symbolism," in Patricia Galloway, ed., ''The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Artifacts and Analysis.'' The Cottonlandia Conference (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press) 239-278. {{cite book |  last = Power | first = Susan |  title = Early Art of the Southeastern Indians-Feathered Serpents and Winged Beings |  url = https://archive.org/details/earlyartofsouthe0000powe |  url-access = registration | publisher = [[University of Georgia Press]] | year = 2004 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/earlyartofsouthe0000powe/page/158 158] |  isbn = 0-8203-2501-5}}</ref>