Pyrrha. In Greek mythology, Pyrrha was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion of whom she had three sons, Hellen, Amphictyon, Orestheus; and three daughters Protogeneia, Pandora II and Thyia.
According to some accounts, Hellen was credited to be born from Pyrrha's union with Zeus. In Latin the word pyrrhus means red from the Greek adjective, purrhos, i.e.
flame coloured, the colour of fire, fiery red or simply red or reddish. Pyrrha was evidently named after her red hair as Horace and Ovid describes her as red haired.
When Zeus decided to end the Bronze Age with the great deluge, Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, were the only survivors. Even though he was imprisoned, Prometheus who could see the future and had foreseen the coming of this flood told his son, Deucalion, to build an ark and, thus, they survived.
During the flood, they landed on Mount Parnassus, the only place spared by the flood. 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, which soon began to lose their hardness and change form. Their mass grew greater, and the beginnings of human form emer
According to some accounts, Hellen was credited to be born from Pyrrha's union with Zeus. In Latin the word pyrrhus means red from the Greek adjective, purrhos, i.e.
flame coloured, the colour of fire, fiery red or simply red or reddish. Pyrrha was evidently named after her red hair as Horace and Ovid describes her as red haired.
When Zeus decided to end the Bronze Age with the great deluge, Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, were the only survivors. Even though he was imprisoned, Prometheus who could see the future and had foreseen the coming of this flood told his son, Deucalion, to build an ark and, thus, they survived.
During the flood, they landed on Mount Parnassus, the only place spared by the flood. 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, which soon began to lose their hardness and change form. Their mass grew greater, and the beginnings of human form emer
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