Deucalion and Pyrrah, a Greek mythos parallel to Biblical Noah and to Utnapishtim. When Zeus decided to end the Bronze Age with the great deluge, Deucalion and Pyrrha were the only survivors on Mount Parnassus, the only place spared by the flood. Deucalion consulted an oracle to repopulate the earth. He was told to throw the bones of his mother behind his shoulder. The couple understood the "mother" to be Gaia, mother of all living things, and the "bones" to be rocks. They threw the rocks behind their shoulders, which soon began to change form and the beginnings of human form emerged.