Without hesitation he released the rainy south wind and called upon the heartless Poseidon to help.
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Soon the whole world sank in a vast ocean, and the entire human race disappeared in the unheard of flood, all but two poor Thessalians.
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When the roaring flood came the couple hid themselves init and floated for nine days until it touched land again on Mt Parnassus.
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Son of Prometheus, Deucalion had been warned beforehand by his father of the coming flood and made himself a huge chest.
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Men grew hungry, impolite and ungodly.
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Towards the end of the Age of Bronze the human world became very cruel.
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The once active world presented a frightening sight. It was all death and ruin.
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Dressed up in human form, Zeus visited Arcadia and Thessaly, and disliked the deadly wrongs of men. He decided to clear the earth of them all.
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The man was called Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha.
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Neither right nor law was respected any longer, and the rule of hospitality was forgotten.
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These were an old childless couple, kind and faithful and contented with life.
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Feeling lonely and unsafe, the old couple prayed to the gods for help.
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A sage instructed them to cast the bones of their mother about.
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The son of the wise Titan, having guessed the true meaning of the mysterious command, started throwing stones behind him. A miracle occurred.
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The stones that the man cast became men; the stones that the woman threw turned into women.
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Since then, people appeared on the land again. The Heroic Age had begun.
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