Talk:Red Horn

Further Alterations
Introduced a section entitled "Son of Earthmaker" to show the mythical origin of Red Horn and his divine mission. Redacted the "Chief of the Herok'a" story to shorten it a bit. Put all the archaeological material together in a new section entitled, "Red Horn and archaeology", and moved the Big Boy picture down to that section. (The Big Boy picture that we have is not much good, since it does not show the prosopic earpieces that he is wearing. This is the only thing linking him to Red Horn.) What should be discussed in this section is Hall's bilobed arrow motif and Red Horn's name of "He who is Struck with Deer Lungs"; "long-nose god maskettes" as artifacts; Big Boy carving; Bird Man; Gottschall Rockshelter; and Picture Cave. Diete003 (talk • contribs) 15:54, 25 October 2008

Change of title
The peer review assessment mentioned that the article is clearly not about a legend, but about a personage, Red Horn, who is the protagonist of various stories (legends, myths, etc.). The object is not just to give an account of legends, but to describe the state of knowledge on this deity. The Winnebago describe him as a man, but in a very broad sense, like the Norse mann, which denotes not only mortal humans, but members of various divine races. Given that English is a little more restrictive in this way, I don't advise "man" in the parenthetical part of the title. "Deity" is probably safe enough when broadly construed. He is at least a supernatural being. He is not found in Algonquian sources, nor in Caddoan. One can adduce by argument other cognates all of which are from Siouan tribes. It is probably safe, therefore, to describe him as a "Siouan diety". This is based on what we know, archaeological speculations aside. Diete003 (talk • contribs) 16:20, 24 October 2008

Adjustments
Making some alterations to bring it into line with the suggestions made by the referee. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Diete003 (talk • contribs) 11:29, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Addition
I added a section entitled "Chief of the Herok'a" which is drawn largely from unpublished sources. It develops Red Horn's identity with the arrow, and shows that his name not only makes reference to his red scalp lock, but to the arrow. In the published secondary literature, none of this material is known. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Diete003 (talk • contribs) 05:53, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Re-write
I've recently re-written and significatly expanded this entry, with citations, a reflist, illustrations and links to related material, new categories, etc. There are still plenty of other red horn cycle myths, plus plenty of astrological associations for all of the different characters (it would be cool to have a whole section on that) that could be added if someone wants to help! Heironymous Rowe (talk) 16:02, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Excellent work. ClovisPt (talk) 17:52, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Re-title?
Should the title of this article be changed from Red Horn (man) to something like Red Horn (legend)? Regards, ClovisPt (talk) 17:54, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it should and was going to suggest it myself, just hadn't gotten around to it yet. I'm not sure why someone named it (man), except to maybe differentiate it from some cartoon character, which seems to have the redhorn name. I'm not sure what to suggest tho, Redhorn (legend), Redhorn (myth), Redhorn (god)?. What do you think would work best? Is there a precedent already set with other mythological characters on other pages? Would have to keep Red Horn (man) as a re-direct page, that or go change all of the links to it, lol. Thanks for the props above. Heironymous Rowe (talk) 18:13, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I vote for Red Horn (legend), with an additional page move of the other article to Red Horn (Zoid) and a disambiguation page created at Red Horn. Good enough?  ClovisPt (talk) 19:02, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Hope no one minds.  Regards, ClovisPt (talk) 19:13, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Works for me.Heironymous Rowe (talk) 20:15, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Bad link
The link to tenous arguments at (Gottschall — Debate and Discussion.) goes nowhere. Could you correct this please Diete003? Heironymous Rowe (talk) 20:53, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

No POV or Original Research
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 * userdiete003, would you mind reading the above material? You are adding unsourced, POV material and making attacks on the profession of archaeology, neither of which are welcome additions to an encyclopedic article. Please respond here and let us work together to make this a good article, sincerely, Heironymous Rowe (talk) 03:13, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've added an inappropriate tone tag to this article until certain issues can be addressed. Heironymous Rowe (talk) 04:32, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've removed the footnote from the image. What we have here is, I think, someone who is an expert but who doesn't understand how Wikipedia works, and is treating the article as though it was a scholarly essay rather than reporting what reliable sources have actually written.  Unless the material in the footnote can actually be found in a source mentioning the legend, it is original research. I hope Richard Dieterle will understand this -- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia reporting what reliable sources have published and that readers can verify.  Richard, if you have published something that says what the footnote said, maybe that can be used. But if not, then Wikipedia policies say it is original research, and not appropriate for an encyclopedia. Even an expert's opinion can't be used unless it is published. Doug Weller (talk) 05:38, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks Doug Weller. I keep trying to communicate with DIETE003, but he doesn't seem to respond to the talk pages, altho he may occasionally read them, as he blanked one a few days ago after I'd left him a message. I think he may feel I'm attacking him, since so far it seems to be me on here, but I just want the article to be good. I'm glad you've stepped in and he can see it's not just my opinions. I'm glad someone of his status has stepped in to help with the article, I just fear he may go over board with issues "extolling the garbage-like ideas of my bitterest academic enemies"(User talk:Xenocidic). Heironymous Rowe (talk) 07:59, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Paintings
Can we have some sources for these please? Specifics about the originals, etc? Thanks. Doug Weller (talk) 15:45, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Typo?
Could someone familiar with the source in note #68 check for typo: sclupture -> sculpture? LilHelpa (talk) 18:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

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