Deucalion then descended from Parnassus, and built his first abode at Opus (Pind. After some doubts and scruples respecting the meaning of this command, they agreed in interpreting the bones of their mother to mean the stones of the earth and they accordingly threw stones behind them, and from those thrown by Deucalion there sprang up men, and from those of Pyrrha women. The goddess bade therm cover their heads and throw the bones of their mother behind them in walking from the temple. According to the more common tradition, Deucalion and Pyrrha went to the sanctuary of Themis, and prayed for the same thing. Deucalion prayed that Zeus might restore mankind. § 2.) When the waters had subsided, Deucalion offered up a sacrifice to Zeus Phyxius, that is, the helper of fugitives, and thereupon the god sent Hermes to him to promise that he would grant any wish which Deucalion might entertain. § 1) and the inhabitants of Delphi were said to have been saved by following the howling of wolves, which led them to the summit of Parnassus, where they founded Lycoreia. Thus Megarus, a son of Zeus, escaped by following the screams of cranes, which led him to the summit of mount Gerania (Paus. 153.) These differences in the story are probably nothing but local traditions in the same manner it was believed in several places that Deucalion and Pyhrra were not the only persons that were saved. After their ship had been floating about for time days, it landed, according to the common tradition, on mount Parnassus others made it land on mount Othrys in Thessaly, on mount Athos, or even on Aetna in Sicily. When Zeus, after the treatment he had received from Lycaon, had resolved to destroy the degenerate race of men who inhabited the earth, Deucalion, on the advice of his father, built a ship, and carried into it stores of provisions and when Zeus sent a flood all over Hellas, which destroyed all its inhabitants, Deucalion and Pyrrha alone were saved. He was king in Phthia, and married to Pyrrha. HELLEN (by Zeus) (Hyginus Fabulae 155)ĭEUCALION (Deukaliôn), a son of Prometheus and Clymene. PROTOGENEIA, PANDORA (Clement Exhortations 10.21) PROTOGENEIA (Pausanias 5.1.3, Hyginus Fabulae 155) PROTOGENEIA (by Pyrrha) (Pindar Olympian 9.42) HELLEN (by Pyrrha) (Hesiod Catalogues Frag 1, Strabo 9.5.6, 9.5.23) HELLEN, AMPHIKTYON, PROTOGENEIA (Apollodorus 1.7.2) EPIMETHEUS (Hyginus Fabulae 155) OFFSPRING OF DEUKALION EPIMETHEUS & PANDORA (Apollodorus 1.46, Ovid Metamorphoses 1.390, Hyginus Fabulae 142) PROMETHEUS (Apollodorus 1.7.2, Apollonius Rhodius 3.1086, Ovid Metamorphoses 1.390) PARENTS OF PYRRHA PROMETHEUS & PRONOIA (Hesiod Catalogues Frag 1) The intervening generations consisted mostly of eponyms-that is, figures who gave their names to tribes or places and which had little or no mythology.įAMILY OF DEUCALION & PYRRHA PARENTS OF DEUKALION His most famous great-grandsons included Sisyphos, Salmoneus, Athamas, Diktys and Polydektes, Ion and Endymion. Deukalion's descendants ruled most of the kingdoms of Greece in the mythic age. the Greeks), and three maidens loved by the god Zeus-Pandora (who was named after her maternal grandmother), Protogeneia and Thyia. The most famous of these were Hellen, the eponymous king of the Hellenes (i.e. They mulled on the riddle and realised the bones were the stones of Mother Earth-casting these, Deuckalion producing a tribe of men and Pyrrha women.ĭeukalion had a number of sons and daughters. Zeus then let the waters to recede and, in the north Poseidon, split the mountains at the Vale of Tempe to release the waters trapped in the Thessalian plain.ĭeukalion and Pyrrha consulted the Delphic oracle asking how they might repopulate the now desolate earth and were told to cast the bones of their mother over their shoulders. Io and her son Epaphos, who lived in Egypt, were also preserved. Other regions also claimed survivors-King Dardanos was said to have sought refuge on Mount Ida in the Troad, Kerambos was carried to the heights of Mount Othrys by the Nymphs, Megaros fled to Mount Gerana, Arkas and Nyktimos were preserved on Mount Kyllene in Arkadia, and the tribes of Parnassos fled to the heights above Delphoi. Mounting a chest the couple found refuge the dry peaks of Mount Parnassos. Only Deukalion and Pyrrha survived the apocalypse-having been warned of the impending calamity by Prometheus. Zeus was angered by their impiety and destroyed them with the Great Deluge. The couple lived in the time of the Bronze Race of Mankind-a third, warlike generation born after the virtuous Silver and Gold races. Deukalion was the son of Prometheus, creator of mankind, and Pyrrha the daughter of Pandora, the first woman. DEUKALION (Deucalion) and PYRRHA were the first king and queen of the northern reaches of Greece-Opountian Lokris (Opuntian Locris), Malis, Phthiotis and Thessalia (Thessaly).
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