Deucalion & Pyrrha
Δευκαλίων, Πύρρα
The couple who survived the flood and remade humanity by throwing stones.
When Zeus resolved to wipe out corrupt humanity with a flood, Prometheus had his son build a chest in advance.
After drifting nine days they landed on Mount Parnassus, and the oracle told them to "throw your mother's bones behind you."
Reading mother as the earth and bones as stones, they threw stones — which rose up as people. Humanity today comes from those stones.
SourcesOvid, Metamorphoses
Commonly confused
It resembles Noah's ark, but neither copied the other. Scholars see a Mesopotamian flood tradition that spread into many cultures.