Deucalion

In Greek mythology, the son of the Titan Prometheus, king of Phthia, and an equivalent of Noah in the Old Testament. Warned by his father of a coming flood, Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha built an ark which grounded after nine days on Mount Parnassus. After the waters subsided, the stones they were instructed to throw over their shoulders became men and women.

The story appeared in the Bibliotheke attributed to the Athenian scholar Apollodorus, and was elaborated by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses. A Boeotian version occurs in which Ogyges, king of Thebes, replaced Deucalion, and in an Arcadian version he is replaced by Dardanus. Other accounts substitute Mount Gerania or Mount Othrys in Thessaly for Parnassus.