Pyrrha

…son of Prometheus. He ruled Thessaly with Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, as his wife. When Zeus, angry at the fall of mankind, caused a great flood to destroy mankind, Deucalion, who had been warned by his father, boarded an ark prepared in advance with his wife and escaped death by arriving at Mount Parnassus on the tenth day. After the water subsided, the two men, who wished for the restoration of mankind, received an oracle telling them to throw their mother's bones behind their backs. Interpreting this as a stone, the two men threw the stone over their shoulders, and the stone Deucalion threw turned into a man, and the stone Pyrrha threw turned into a woman. …

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…プロメテウスの子。エピメテウスとパンドラの娘ピュラPyrrhaを妻としてテッサリア地方を治めていたが，人間の堕落を怒ったゼウスが人類を滅ぼすべく大洪水を起こしたとき，父からこのことを警告されていたデウカリオンは，あらかじめ準備した箱舟に妻とともに乗り込み，10日目にパルナッソス山に着いて死を免れた。水が引いてから，人類の回復を願う二人に，母の骨を背後に投げよとの託宣があり，これを石と解した二人が肩越しに石を投ずると，デウカリオンの投げた石は人間の男に，ピュラのそれは女になった。…

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