Deucalion - Mythology.
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Deucalion - Mythology. Greek A son of Prometheus, the Titan champion of humankind. Prometheus warned Deucalion that Zeus was so angry with the evils of humanity that he was plotting its annihilation. Deucalion, the Greek equivalent of the Old Testament's Noah, built an ark. After nine days of rain, the ark landed safely on Mount Parnassus. Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, gave sacrifice to Zeus. The spirit of the Titan Themis told them to repeople the Earth. This they did by casting stones (the bones of Gaia) behind them. Those cast by Pyrrha became women; those cast by Deucalion became men. Hellen, the eldest son, was the patriarch of the race of Hellenes, later called the Greeks. Scholars say that the deluge in this myth is undoubtedly the same as the flood quoted in the Old Testament and the Gilgamesh epic of Babylon, and reflects a dim memory common to the peoples of the Mediterranean.
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- Prometheus Unbound Author's Preface Percy Bysshe Shelley The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain arbitrary discretion.
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- Pyrrha Greek Daughter of Epimetheus; wife of Deucalion.
- Pandora (All-giving) Greek The first woman to appear on Earth, according to Greek mythology.
- pantheon Greek and Roman In mythology, pantheon refers to all the gods of a people, particularly those considered to be the most prominent or most powerful.