Deucalion, who reigned over the region of Phthia, had been forewarned of the flood by his father, Prometheus. Deucalion was to build an ark and provision it carefully, so that when the waters receded after nine days, he and his wife Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, were the one surviving pair of humans. Their ark touched solid ground. Once the deluge was over and the couple had given thanks to Zeus, Deucalion consulted an oracle of Themis about how to repopulate the earth. He was told to cover your head and throw the bones of your mother behind your shoulder. Deucalion and Pyrrha understood that "mother" is Gaia, the mother of all living things, and the "bones" to be rocks. They threw the rocks behind their shoulders and the stones formed people. Pyrrha's became women; Deucalion's became men.
(53311) Deucalion is related with backup support that allows to restore a system after a catastrophic failure, like in the movie "Titan A.E." (2000), were a new planet is created with nuclear technology and the species repopulated by stored samples of DNA; after the Earth was destroyed by the Drej, an alien specie.
This theme got relevance in "The Ring" (1998), one of the first Japanese terror movies, because those who made a copy of the VHS tape after watching it, did not die.
