Deucalion and Pyrrha create a new race of people, Ovid's Metamorphoses (series title), A man and a woman, with their faces covered, throw stones behind them, which turn into men and women. They are Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only man and woman who survived the great deluge of the gods. An oracle (seen in the center of the background) advised them to 'throw the bones of the great mother behind them'. On the left on the mountain behind the oracle you can see the ark in which Deucalion and Pyrrha managed to survive the flood. Two lines of Latin text underneath the scene. This print is part of a se

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