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Vicar of Christ
In Chapter Three: How the World and Mankind Were Created in Mythology(Greek), by Edith Hamilton, lies something I found quite interesting. I'll summarize the section for you.
If you have another story in Greek Mythology that I've not read or noticed, feel free to tell me about it!
Notice the similarities between the Greek myth and Noah's Ark? What's your take?
In a third account of how mankind came to be, it is said that men descended from a race of stone. This account begins with a great flood delivered by Zeus and Poseidon to earth to rid the wicked of the world. On the earths topmost peak were the means by which mankind would survive. On that spot, a man and a woman, Deucalion and Pyrrha (Prometheus son and niece), occupied a wooden chest. Prometheus warned his son of the great flood and told to build the chest and embark on it with his wife.
Zeus was not offended, for the two were worshippers of the gods. Zeus drained the world, and allowed the pair to disembark. Deucalion and Pyrrha then found a temple in which to give thanks for their escape and pray for strength. They heard a voice telling them to Veil their heads and cast behind them the bones of their mother. Stricken at first, Deucalion later recognized the bones to be that of the earth, mother of all. They threw stones behind their head, and as they fell, begot the Stone People.
If you have another story in Greek Mythology that I've not read or noticed, feel free to tell me about it!