![]() Pervasive throughout the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia until late antiquity and beyond, mágos (μάγος) was influenced by (and eventually displaced) Greek goēs (γόης), the older word for a practitioner of magic, to include astronomy/ astrology, alchemy, and other forms of esoteric knowledge. Old Persian texts, predating the Hellenistic period, refer to a magus as a Zurvanic, and presumably Zoroastrian, priest. The earliest known use of the word magi is in the trilingual inscription written by Darius the Great, known as the Behistun Inscription. Persian: مغ pronounced ) were priests in Zoroastrianism and the earlier religions of the western Iranians. ![]() Magi ( / ˈ m eɪ dʒ aɪ/ singular magus / ˈ m eɪ ɡ ə s/ from Latin magus, cf. Statuettes from the Oxus Treasure of the Achaemenid Empire, 4th century BC Zoroastrian priests (Magi) carrying barsoms.
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