"DEUCALION AND PYRRHA RE-POPULATE THE WORLD" "The instruction from Themis, patroness of Order, Harmony and Law, was to loosen their clothing, become 'blind', (with passion?) and sow pebbles broadcast, much in the matter of the psephi, cast by the Thriae, the three blind nurses of Apollo, to divine the oracle traded by him for the musical 'speaking-tube' reed pipe invented by the infant Hermes. Graves speaks of the scene of the pebble-seeding as a dried river and an open plain. I always imagine the couple on a beach, devoid of any other feature except the flat infertile sand, newly liberated from the departed Flood. Having landed their Ark, they, like any seafaring colonists, when setting foot upon the site of a new foundation, built a fire, cooked a meal, and dedicated the best of it to the gods that had guided them to safety through the storm. Then after making their wish, they walked along the beach, casting their 'seeds' over their (reasoning) heads to land (at random and out of sight) behind them." SCRIPTING SPACE: "The Empire of the Forest".