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In Greek mythology, Pyrrha was the daughter of
Epimetheus and wife of Deucalion.
When Zeus decided to end the Golden
Age with the great deluge, Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, were the only survivors.
Prometheus told his son, Deucalion, to build an ark and, thus, they
survived.
Once the deluge was over and the couple were on land again, Deucalion consulted an oracle of Themis about how to repopulate the earth. He was told to throw
the bones of his mother behind his shoulder. Deucalion and Pyrrha understood the "mother" to be Gaia, the mother of all living things, and the "bones" to be rocks. They threw the rocks behind their shoulders and
the stones formed people. Pyrrha's became women; Deucalion's became men.
Deucalion and Pyrrha had at least one son, Hellen, and possibly a second, Amphictyon (who is autochthonous in other traditions).
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