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Do you want to know where “Hellas” took its name from?
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Deucalion, son of Prometheus and Clymene, married Pyrra, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. Deucalion was the king of Fthia. Angry Zeus, decided to punish the “bronze” Age of humans unleashing a deluge. Prometheus, advised his son Deucalion to create an an urn, in order to place food inside and be safe with his wife.
After 9 days and 9 nights, the ark approached mountain Parnassus (or according to another version “Othry”) and, when the deluge stopped, Deucalion made a sacrifice to Zeus. After an oracle, Deucalion and Pyrrha tied their eyes with cloth so that they could not see, and began to throw stones backwards. From these stones according to the Mythology the human genus was created: men from Deucalion’s stones and women from Pyrra’s stones.
Since then human genus, is also said “people (=λαός)”, as this word comes etymologically from “laas” which means stone.
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the forefathers of Greek mythology. They had three children: Amphictyon, Protogenea and Hellen. From the last one, the entire Greek nation was named “Έλληνας”(=Greek).
Deucalion and Pyrrha throwing stones.
(Image from Wikipedia)