DEUKALION With his wife Pyrrha, he was the only one saved from the great flood, sent by an angry Zeus, that destroyed all life on the Earth. The man and woman were commanded by the Father of the gods to repopulate the Earth, and to this end they went around casting stones on the ground, which grew into men and women. From these men and women sprang the Hellenic race, and its offshoots, the Aeolians, Dorians, Achaeans and Ionians.