Jonetos the son of Noah went to the east as far as the sea and the
place called the Country of the Sun, where the rising of the sun takes place,
and he settled there.
This Jonetos received from God the gift of wisdom, and he was the
first to discover the practice of astronomy. Nimrod the giant came down to him,
and he was instructed and took from him the counsel by which he ruled. This Nimrod
was of the heroes, of the children of Shem, and he was the first to rule as a
king on the earth. (Apocalypse Pseudo-Methodius: An Alexandrian World
Chronicle [trans. Benjamin Garstad; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 14;
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012], 9)
