Rhombus in Greek: Ρόμβος. The anagram of Ρόμβος can create the word Όμβρος.
Όμβρος in Greek means torrential rain (falling rapidly and in copious quantities; flowing rapidly and with force), downpour (is a sudden and unexpected heavy fall of rain.
Synonyms: rainstorm, flood, deluge
In Greek mythology, Deucalion (Greek: Δευκαλίων) was the son of Prometheus; ancient sources name his mother as Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia. He is closely connected with the flood myth in Greek mythology.
According to folk etymology, Deucalion’s name comes from δεῦκος, deukos, a variant of γλεῦκος, gleucos, i.e. “sweet new wine, must, sweetness” and from ἁλιεύς, haliéus, i.e. “sailor, seaman, fisher”. His wife Pyrrha’s name derives from the adjective πυρρός, -ά, -όν, pyrrhós, -á, -ón, i.e. “flame-colored, orange”.
Deucalion and Pyrrha had at least two children, Hellen and Protogenea, and possibly a third, Amphictyon (who is autochthonous in other traditions).
Their children as apparently named in one of the oldest texts, Catalogue of Women, include daughters Pandora and Thyia, and at least one son, Hellen.
In Greek mythology, Pandora (Ancient Greek: Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶς “all” and δῶρον “gift”, thus “all-gifted” or “all-giving”) was a daughter of King Deucalion and Pyrrha who was named after her maternal grandmother, the more famous Pandora. Her brother was Hellen.
According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, she was the mother of Graecus by the god Zeus. The same can be parentage can be attributed to Latinus. In some accounts, Pandora’s children by Zeus were called Melera and Pandorus.
In Greek mythology, Hellen (Ancient Greek: Ἕλλην Hellēn) was the progenitor of the Hellenes (Ἕλληνες). His name is also another name for Greek, meaning a person of Greek descent or pertaining to Greek culture or to the state of Greece and the source of the adjective “Hellenic”.
Hellen was the son of Deucalion (or sometimes Zeus) and Pyrrha, and was the brother of Amphictyon.
A flood myth or deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primaeval waters which appear in certain creation myths, as the flood waters are described as a measure for the cleansing of humanity, in preparation for rebirth. Most flood myths also contain a culture hero, who “represents the human craving for life”.
The flood-myth motif occurs in many cultures as seen in: the Mesopotamian flood stories, manvantara-sandhya in Hinduism, the Gun-Yu in Chinese mythology, Deucalion and Pyrrha in Greek mythology, the Genesis flood narrative, Bergelmir in Norse mythology, flood during the time of Nuh (Noah) of Qur’an, the arrival of the first inhabitants of Ireland with Cessair in Irish mythology, in parts of Polynesia such as Hawaii, the lore of the K’iche’ and Maya peoples in Mesoamerica, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa tribe of Native Americans in North America, the Muisca and Cañari Confederation in South America, Africa, and some Aboriginal tribes in Australia.
The flood in the time of Deucalion was caused by the anger of Zeus, ignited by the hubris of the Pelasgians.
Hubris (from ancient Greek ὕβρις) describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence, often in combination with (or synonymous with) arrogance. The term “arrogance” comes from the Latin adrogare, meaning to feel that one has a right to demand certain attitudes and behaviors from other people. To “arrogate” means “to claim or seize without justification…. to make undue claims to having”, or “to claim or seize without right… to ascribe or attribute without reason”.
So Zeus decided to put an end to the Bronze Age. According to this story, Lycaon, the king of Arcadia, had sacrificed a boy to Zeus, who was appalled by this savage offering. Zeus unleashed a deluge, so that the rivers ran in torrents and the sea flooded the coastal plain, engulfed the foothills with spray, and washed everything clean. Deucalion, with the aid of his father Prometheus, was saved from this deluge by building a chest. Like the Biblical Noah and the Mesopotamian counterpart Utnapishtim, he uses this device to survive the deluge with his wife, Pyrrha.