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I'm not sure whether by 'early' you mean it originated in ancient Greece, or you mean it happened early in the timeline of Greek mythology, so here's one that fits both:

Long ago, when the Titans ruled the Earth, the king of the Titans, Cronus (name meaning 'time'), heard of a prophecy that one of his children would overthrow him. In order to prevent this, he swallowed the five children that his wife eventually bore. His wife, Rhea, did not like her children being eaten. So when the sixth child, Zeus, was born, she swaddled a rock in cloth and gave it to Cronus to swallow -- which he did, thinking that it was his child. Rhea gave the child away to be raised, and when grown, Zeus returned to his father and tricked him into drinking a mixture of mustard and wine to make him throw up. When he did, the five children (Hera, Demeter, Poseidon, Hades, and Hestia), who had grown inside his stomach, leapt out. There was a great battle between the Titans and the Gods, ending with (spoiler) the gods winning. Zeus banished the Titans to Tartar, but not before cutting his father, Cronus, with Cronus' own scythe, the same way Cronus did to his father, Ouranus (the sky).

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