Deucalion
3 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Deucalion. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
du-ka'li-on, in Greek legend, a king of Phthia, in Thessaly. Deucalion was a descendant of the Titan Prometheus. He was a just man, and his wife Pyrrha was a faithful worshiper of the gods. During the Brazen and Iron Ages man became so impious that Zeus determined to destroy the entire race and start afresh with a new and more worthy type. He therefore sent a fearful deluge upon the earth, which destroyed all life. The earth became one vast sea, Mount Parnassus alone lifting its summit above the waters. Here Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only beings left alive, found refuge. Zeus, seeing them on the mountain, and remembering their innocence and piety, decided that they might live. He sent the North Wind to scatter the clouds that the sun might again shine upon the earth. Poseidon, likewise, bade his trumpeter take his conch shell and sound the signal for the waves to retreat. When they could leave the mountain, Deucalion and Pyrrha visited a temple, which they found covered with mud and slime, and prayed for counsel. The oracle bade them leave the temple, and "with veiled heads cast behind you the bones of your mother." The couple were astonished. They left the temple revolving this strange reply which commanded them to profane the remains of their parents, an impious act. At last Deucalion solved the riddle. "Earth is the great mother of us all," said he, and forthwith picked up some stones from the hillside and threw them behind him. Pyrrha did the same. Deucalion's stones assumed the form of men; Pyrrha's the form of women,--both retaining so much of the nature of the stones from which they sprang as to be fitted to endure labor and hardship. Thus the world was peopled again, and in time the effects of the deluge disappeared. Deucalion became the father of Hellen, traditionally the ancestor of the Hellenes or ancient Greeks. See Mythology ; Brazen Age
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the son of Prometheus and Clymere. Zeus having the human race by a resolved to destroy oy deluge, Deucalion built a ship, in which he and his wife, Pyrrha, escaped. When the ship finally rested on Mount Etna, they resolved to offer up sacrifices to the gods for the repeopling of the world; thereupon, they went to the sanctuary of Themis for this purpose, and were told by the goddess that they must throw behind them the bones of their mother as they departed from the temple. Understanding by the "bones of their mother" the stones of the earth, they obeyed the injunction, and from those thrown by Deucalion sprang up men, and from those by Pyrrha women. Deucalion built his first dwelling place at Opus, or Cynus. He is also said to have founded the sanctuary of Olympian Jove at Athens, and in later ages his tomb in the vicinity was long pointed out. Deucalion had by by Pyrrha several children, Hellen, Amphictyon, Protogeneia, and others. DEUTERONOMY (Gr. deuteronomion, the " second " or " repeated law "), the Greek name of the fifth book of the Pentateuch. It presents the third and latest phase of the development of the Mosaic legislation. Its great aim is to check the encroachments of idolatry, and to concentrate the national worship in the great sanctuary at Jerusalem, especially at the three annual festivals. It is instinct with the prophetic spirit, and lays stress on the great commandment to love and fear God with the whole heart as the sum of the whole DEUTZIA (named after John Deutz, a Dutch naturalist), a genus of shrubs, natives of the East Indies, belonging to the natural order Philadelphaceæ, or syringas. The leaves are used in Jap Japan for polishing purposes, and their inner bark for poultices.
1000 Classical Characters (1900)
A son of Prometheus , who married Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus. He reigned over part of Thessaly, and in his age the earth was covered by a deluge of water, sent by Jupiter as a punishment for the impiety of mankind. Deucalion constructed a ship, and by this means saved himself and Pyrrha. The ship, after being tossed on the waves for nine days, rested on Mount Parnassus. The deluge of Deucalion is supposed to have occurred B. c. 1503.