Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-184.53.34.154-20151016041640

Pyrrah was also the name of one of the last surviving humans in the Greek and Roman flood stories, where Zeus punished humanity by flooding the Earth. Pyrrah and her husband Deucalion were spared for being devout worshipers as well as kind and respectful to their elders. They were told by the goddess Themis that in order to repopulate the earth they must throw the bones of their mother over their shoulders, which they determined were the stones of mother Earth. The stones Pyrrah threw became women and the rocks Deucalion threw became men.

I doubt this has anything to do with her inspiration, but I thought it was interesting how the name reappears in multiple stories of Greek mythology.