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Deucalion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Deucalion , in Greek mythology, son of Prometheus and father of Hellen. When Zeus, angered by humanity's irreverence, flooded the earth, Deucalion, warned by Prometheus, survived by taking refuge with his wife, Pyrrha...
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Hellen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hellen , in Greek mythology, ancestor of the Hellenes, or Greeks; son of Deucalion and Pyrrha. He was the father of Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, who were the progenitors of the principal nations of the Greeks—the Dorians, the Ionians, the Achaeans, and the Aeolians.
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reproduction myths
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...particular her possession of ‘the mind of a bitch’. An alternative Greek myth involves a first man, Deucalion, with his wife, Pyrrha, repopulating the earth after a flood by throwing stones over their shoulders. Autochthony , the...
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Pyrrha
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pyrrha : see Deucalion .
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Prometheus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...taught him many useful arts and sciences. In another legend he saved the human race from extinction by warning his son, Deucalion , of a great flood. This sympathy with mankind roused the anger of Zeus, who then plagued man with Pandora and her box of...
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Piron, Alexis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...of more than one speaking actor in a fairground theatre by writing a series of monologues, of which the first was Arlequin Deucalion (1722). Encouraged by their success, he sent a comedy, L'École des pères , to the Comé...
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belly button
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...omphalos at Delphi stands upon the spot where Apollo killed the serpent Python, or upon the chasm through which the waters of Deucalion's flood drained away. The omphalos was regarded as the throne of a deity, notably the Earth Mother. It could serve as...
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Deluge
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...being found in the record of Berossus (3d cent. BC), another on a tablet of the Gilgamesh epic of at least 2000 BC See Deucalion and Ur . Bibliography: See N. Cohn, Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought (1996); W. Ryan and W. Pitman...
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