In Greek mythology, Pyrrha’s husband was Deucalion. Deucalion was the son of Prometheus, making his marriage to Pandora’s daughter part of a closely connected family story.
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the central survivors of the Greek flood myth. Zeus sends a devastating flood, but Prometheus warns Deucalion, who builds a chest or ark. After the flood, the couple receives instructions from the goddess Themis or, in some versions, an oracle associated with her.
They are told to throw the “bones of their mother” behind them. Interpreting the phrase as stones from Mother Earth, they throw rocks over their shoulders. The stones become men and women, allowing humanity to begin again.
Deucalion is sometimes compared with Noah because both figures survive a divinely sent flood in a vessel. The stories are distinct, however, and the Greek version specifically explains the new population through stones rather than through descendants alone.