The deucalion myth

Zeus hated humanity because he witnessed them indulge in terrible decadence. Outraged, he flooded the planet with his brother Poseidon's help in order to eliminate humanity. Deucalion, the son of Prometheus and the Greek equivalent of Noah, built an ark and escaped the flood with his wife Pyrrha, landing on Mount Parnassus. After that, the couple offered sacrifice to Zeus and sought advice from an oracle on how to repopulate the world. "Cover your head and throw your mother's bones behind your shoulder," they were ordered. Deucalion and Pyrrha realized that their mother was the soil goddess Gaia, and the bones were rocks. They followed the advice, and the stones softened and transformed into human bodies—humans with no connection to the gods. The other animals emerge from the dirt on their own.

Hellen and Protogenea were Deucalion and Pyrrha's offspring. Pandora the Second and Thyia are also mentioned as their children in other texts. The tale of Deucalion and Pyrrha is a combination of the Biblical Flood and the Sumerian Flood recounted in Gilgamesh's Epic; Deucalion is thus the Greek counterpart of Biblical Noah and Sumerian Utnapishtim.