One very remote day the gods of Olympus decided to send a universal flood to wipe out all humans. All this species kept offending the gods and they considered that they had to eliminate them and build a new humanity, except for Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only ones who retained worship of the gods.
When the water level rose Deucalion and Pyrrha were in the sea in a very small boat, but out of danger. They reached Mount Etna, the only place that was not underwater.
Jupiter was worried, as only two innocents out of so many thousands of men had survived. Deucalion and Pyrrha built a temple to honor the gods. When they were already inside the temple, they saw a deity, who ordered them to cover their eyes. Because of loneliness both one and the other asked the gods to inflict the same punishment (death) or to give them more people.
The deity gave them some stones and told them to throw them back and so humanity would return. From the stones that Deucalion threw back men were born. From the stones that Pyrrha threw women were born. In this way, humanity was born from which we all come.
Explained by A. Catalá
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