Deucalion Son Of Prometheus
In Greek mythology , Deucalion (in ancient Greek / son of the Titan Prometheus and Pronoia (or Clymene according to tradition), is the husband of Pyrrha , from whom he Hellen , Amphictyon , Protogenes , Pandora and Thyia.
He is with his wife Pyrrha, one of the few mortals who survived the Deluge (see this article for more information). Refugees on Mount Parnassus , they were ordered to the oracle of Themis to throw behind them the bones of their grandmother to repopulate the earth. Knowing he was Gaia (the Earth ), whose stones are the bones they picked up stones and threw them behind them: those that Deucalion threw were changed into men, and those which Pyrrha threw in women. This fable appears to be founded on the double meaning of the Greek word laos, which means both stone and people.
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Marie-Nicolas Bouillet and Alexis Chassang (ed.), "Deucalion son of Prometheus" in Universal Dictionary of History and Geography, 1878 See also
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