Deucalion

Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and husband of Pyrrha. When Zeus had resolved to destroy the race of men by a flood, after the treatment he had received from Lycaon, Deucalion built an ark or ship, in which he and his wife floated during the nine days' flood which drowned all the other inhabitants of Hellas. On the subsidence of the waters the ark rested on Mount Parnassus. To repopulate the world Deucalion and Pyrrha were told by the goddess Themis to throw behind them the bones of their mother. This they did with the stones of mother-earth, and from those thrown by Deucalion sprang up men, and from those by Pyrrha, women.