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Deucalion
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Son of Prometheus, who, with his wife Pyrrha, by means of an ark which he built, was saved from a flood which for nine days overwhelmed the land of Hellas. On the subsidence of the flood they consulted the oracle at Delphi as to re-peopling the land with inhabitants, when they were told by Themis, the Pythia at the time, to throw the bones of their mother over their heads behind them. For a time the meaning of the oracle was a puzzle, but the readier wit of the wife found it out; upon which they took stones and threw them over their heads, when the stones he threw were changed into men and those she threw were changed into women.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Deucalion'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/d/deucalion.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Deucalion'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/d/deucalion.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
