Redhorn

One of the principal heroes of the Ho-Chunk pantheon. Named for the red horn-shaped lock of hair that hangs along his ear; also wears living human heads as earrings. Identified iconographically with the Morning Star figure depicted in Mississippian shell engravings (the "Long-Nosed God" maskettes).

Children

• Redhorn's Elder Son

Powers

• foot racing supernatural
• celestial luminance
• cosmic ball game mastery
• Make living human heads grow on his earlobes
• Make living faces on his earlobes
• Defeat giants at lacrosse
• Win the contest footrace

Epithets

• He-Who-Wears-Human-Heads-as-Earrings latin · Red Horn · oralRed Horn; the culture-hero who wins the races and the war against the giantsPaul Radin, The Winnebago Tribe (secondary)
• Wears-Faces-on-His-Ears win · Herokaga · epithetHe who wears (man) faces on his ears; also Without-Horns when he removes the red hornPaul Radin, The Winnebago Tribe (1923); 'Redhorn Cycle' (Hocąk) (secondary)

Relations

• spouse: White-Beaver-Skin Wrap WomanA wife of Redhorn and mother of his elder son, who avenged and revived him after the giants' victory.Radin, Winnebago Hero Cycles: A Study in Aboriginal Literature (1948) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Radin, Winnebago Hero Cycles (1948) (secondary); Hall, An Archaeology of the Soul (1997) (secondary)