Pyrrha
In Greek mythology , Pyrrha ( Greek Πύρρα Pýrra ) is the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and the wife of Deucalion .
When Zeus decided to end the brazen line with the great Deukalion flood , Deucalion and Pyrrha were the only survivors, because Prometheus had ordered his son Deucalion in time to build a ship .
After the flood had subsided and the couple landed on Mount Parnassus , Deucalion asked the oracle of Themis what should be done to repopulate the earth. She told them to cover their heads and throw their mother's bones over their shoulders . After some hesitation by Pyrrhas about such an iniquity, Deucalion guessed that with the "mother" the Gaia , the earth as the mother of all, and with the bones stones were meant. So they threw stones over their shoulders, which became women in Pyrrha and men in Deucalion.
Pyrrha and Deucalion had at least five children, Protogeneia , Hellen (the progenitor of the "Hellenes", that is, the Greeks), Graikos, Thyia and Orestheus and possibly a sixth, Amphictyon .
literature
- Paul Weizsäcker : Pyrrha 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 3352-3355 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 1.46 f.
- ↑ Ovid Metamorphoses 1, 348-415.
- ^ Lexicon of Antiquity , p. 236.
- ^ Pausanias, Reisen in Greece , 10, 38, 1.