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Deucalion and is
In Greek mythology, Aquarius is sometimes associated with Deucalion, the figure who built a ship with his wife Pyrrha to survive an imminent flood.
Like Noah, Deucalion is a wine maker or wine seller ; he is forewarned of the flood ( this time by Zeus and Poseidon ); he builds an ark and staffs it with creatures – and when he completes his voyage, gives thanks and takes advice from the gods on how to repopulate the Earth.
* c. 1490 BC: Cranaus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed after a reign of 10 years by his son-in-law Amphictyon of Thessaly, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
* 1487 BC: Amphictyon, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha and legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 10 years and is succeeded by Erichthonius I of Athens, a grandson of Cranaus.
* 1497 BC — Cranaus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed after a reign of 10 years by his son-in-law Amphictyon of Thessaly, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
* 1487 BC — Amphictyon, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha and legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 10 years and is succeeded by Erichthonius I of Athens, a grandson of Cranaus.
Deucalion is parallel to Biblical Noah and to Utnapishtim, the survivor of the Sumerian flood that is told in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
:" There Achaea, i. e. Greece is a land encircled by lofty mountains, rich in sheep and in pasture, where Prometheus, son of Iapetus, begat goodly Deucalion, who first founded cities and reared temples to the immortal gods, and first ruled over men.
Hyginus mentions the opinion of a Hegesianax that Deucalion is to be identified with Aquarius, " because during his reign such quantities of water poured from the sky that the great Flood resulted.
Deucalion and Pyrrha understood that " mother " is Gaia, the mother of all living things, and the " bones " to be rocks.
Deucalion and Pyrrha had at least two children, Hellen and Protogenea, and possibly a third, Amphictyon ( who is Autochthonous in other traditions ).
Plutarch mentions a legend that Deucalion and Pyrrha had settled in Dodona, Epirus ; while Strabo asserts that they lived at Cynus, and that her grave is still to be found there, while his may be seen at Athens ; he also mentions a pair of Aegean islands named after the couple.
In The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series by James A. Owen, Deucalion is an ancient shipbuilder who taught animals to walk and talk.
In the anime series Kiddy Grade, Deucalion is the name given to a massive ship that was intended to take the upper class of the galaxy away to a new space where they believed they could escape the growing revolutionary movements rippling through the galactic government.
The story of Deucalion and Pyrrha is also retold in the Roman poet Ovid ’ s famous collection of Metamorphoses.
Pyrrha is distraught at the idea of desecrating her mother ’ s honor by digging up her bones, but Deucalion correctly reasons that Themis is referring to great mother earth, as Themis would never advise someone to commit a crime.
* Those listed by Latin mythographer Hyginus ( Fabulae 30 ); they include Deucalion, whose connection is unlikely.
It seems the deluge of Deucalion of Greek-mythology is the Greek version of the older legend.
In some accounts, Deucalion is said to have fled Lycorea to Athens with his sons Hellen and Amphictyon.
For instance, the memory of a flood is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, in the Greek legend of Deucalion, and in the Manu legend of India.
Amphictyon ( Ancient Greek: ), in Greek mythology, was the second son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, although there was also a tradition that he was autochthonous ( born from the earth ); he is also said to be a son of Hellen son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.

Deucalion and name
In Greek mythology, Deucalion () was a son of Prometheus ; ancient sources name his mother as Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia.
In Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series, the monster goes by the name " Deucalion ", which he presumably chose sometime in his 200 year existence.
The village owes its name to the important sanctuary dedicated to Zeus ( Dias, " of Zeus "), leader of the gods who dwelt on Mount Olympus ; as recorded by Hesiod's Catalogue of Women, Thyia, daughter of Deucalion, bore Zeus two sons, Magnes and Makednos, eponym of Macedonians, who dwelt here in Pieria at the foot of Mount Olympus.
Furthermore, the name of king's sister in the film, is in fact Ariadne in the legend, and Deucalion does not show any signs of wanting sexual relations with her in the original text.
Unlike his other creations, the hulking and highly intelligent Deucalion ( a name he gives himself later ) believes that the singular nature of his genesis-animation via a lightning bolt-gave him a soul, though this is never a fact that he confirms believing that would be an act of blasphemy.
The character shares his name with Deucalion, a figure from Greek mythology, who was the son of Prometheus ( Shelley's subtitle for her novel was " The Modern Prometheus ").
Deucalion chose the name for precisely this reason.

Deucalion and by
Unlike Minos I, Minos II fathered numerous children, including Androgeus, Catreus, Deucalion, Ariadne, Phaedra, and Glaucus — all born to him by his wife Pasiphaë.
However, the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, fragment # 5, had made a " Pandora " one of the daughters of Deucalion, and the mother of Graecus by Zeus.
Deucalion, with the aid of his father Prometheus, was saved from this deluge by building a chest ( literally “ chest ” like the Bible's “ ark ,” which means “ box ”) Like his Biblical equivalent Noah and Mesopotamian counterpart Utnapishtim, he uses his chest to survive the deluge with his wife, Pyrrha.
Deucalion, who reigned over the region of Phthia, had been forewarned of the flood by his father, Prometheus.
John Lemprière, in Bibliotheca Classica, notes that as the story was re-told in later versions it accumulated details from the stories of Noah and Moses: " Thus Apollodorus gives Deucalion a great chest as a means of safety ; Plutarch speaks of the pigeons by which he sought to find out whether the waters had retired ; and Lucian of the animals of every kind which he had taken with him & c ."
The stones thrown by Pyrrha became women ; those thrown by Deucalion became men.
When the storm has cleared and the waters have subsided, Deucalion and Pyrrha are taken aback by the desolate wreckage of the land, and understand that they are now responsible for repopulating the earth.
Locrus son of Physcius and grandson of Amphictyon son of Deucalion, became by Cabya the father of another Locrus, the mythical ancestor of the Ozolian Locrians ( Plut.
" Before the time of Hellen, son of Deucalion ... the country went by the names of the different tribes, in particular of the Pelasgian.
Cranaus was deposed by Amphictyon son of Deucalion, who was himself later deposed by Erichthonius.
* Deucalion-The setting of the novel Deucalion by Brian Caswell.
Other recordings of the Thera eruption spawned Greek myths, namely the Deucalion, in which Poseidon, god of the sea, took revenge upon Zeus by inundating Attica, Argolis, Salonika, Rhodes and the coast of Lycia ( Turkey ) to Sicily.

Deucalion and Frankenstein's
Opposed to his activities are a pair of homicide detectives and Frankenstein's original monster, now known as Deucalion.

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