Erisichthon

Erisichthon was a Greek who profaned the gods by cutting down a tree sacred to Ceres, a forest Nymph. As a punishment, Ceres condemned him to always be hungry, no matter how much he ate. And so Erisichthon was hungry, and lost all his money buying food. When he had no more money, he sold his daughter.

The daughter, however, did not like being sold, and asked Neptune to save her. And so whenever she was sold, he would turn her into an animal so that she could run away, back to her father, who would sell her again for more money.

However, at the end his hunger got that best of him and he ate himself.

This gives me a disturbing mental image of a skull trying to eat its nose.

When I read this myth I found there was a cool connection with cutting forests in it. Even though I realize that the Greeks probably knew nothing about the the dangers of cutting too many forests when this myth was written, and this was not meant in any way to be taken as I have taken it, it made me think that maybe this was a warning to us humans. There's this one African quote that goes along the lines of, "Only when the last fish has been fished, when the last cow has been slayed, when the last river has been drunk, will humans realize they cannot eat money." We're cutting down all the forests so that we can get money, and maybe once we have done that too much of that, we'll have a famine...It's just a thought I had.