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Deucalion
Deucalion (; ) was the son of Prometheus; ancient sources name his mother as Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia.〔The scholia to ''Odyssey'' 10.2 names Clymene as the commonly identified mother, along with Hesione (citing Acusilaus, ''FGrH'' 2 F 34) and possibly Pronoia.〕 The anger of Zeus was ignited by the hubris of the Pelasgians, so he decided to put an end to the Bronze Age. Lycaon, the king of Arcadia, had sacrificed a boy to Zeus, who was appalled by this savage offering. Zeus unleashed a deluge, so that the rivers ran in torrents and the sea flooded the coastal plain, engulfed the foothills with spray, and washed everything clean. Deucalion, with the aid of his father Prometheus, was saved from this deluge by building a chest. Like the Biblical Noah and the Mesopotamian counterpart Utnapishtim, he uses his device to survive the deluge with his wife, Pyrrha.
==Etymology==
According to folk etymology, Deucalion's name comes from δεῦκος, ''deukos'', a variant of γλεῦκος, ''gleucos'', i.e. "sweet new wine, must, sweetness" and ἁλιεύς, ''haliéus'', i.e. "sailor, seaman, fisher". His wife Pyrrha's name is derived from the adjective πυρρός, -ά, -όν, ''pyrrhós, -á, -ón'', i.e. "flame-colored, orange".
Deucalion is parallel to Utnapishtim, the survivor of the Sumerian flood that is told in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', and to the Biblical Noah.
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