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Name Deucalion
Gender Masculine
Scripts Δευκαλίων(Ancient Greek)
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Meaning & History
In Greek legend he was the son of Prometheus and Pronoia.
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A figure out of Greek mythology, recorded only in later Roman sources. In most accounts, Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha are the only survivors of a great flood. They float in a wooden chest nine days and nights, which finally comes to rest on Mount Parnassus. The couple repopulate the earth by throwing 'the bones of their mother' over their shoulder — their mother in this case being Gaia (Mother Earth) and her bones being stones. However, the account of Dionysius of Halicarnassus ignores this flood myth and instead briefly mentions Deucalion, son of Prometheus, as a military leader who swept out of Parnassus to conquer neighboring Thessaly.
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A figure out of Greek mythology, recorded only in later Roman sources. In most accounts, Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha are the only survivors of a great flood. They float in a wooden chest nine days and nights, which finally comes to rest on Mount Parnassus. The couple repopulate the earth by throwing 'the bones of their mother' over their shoulder — their mother in this case being Gaia (Mother Earth) and her bones being stones. However, the account of Dionysius of Halicarnassus ignores this flood myth and instead briefly mentions Deucalion, son of Prometheus, as a military leader who swept out of Parnassus to conquer neighboring Thessaly.