Pervasive throughout the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia until late antiquity and beyond, mágos 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. Magi ( / ˈ m eɪ dʒ aɪ/ singular magus / ˈ m eɪ ɡ ə s/ from Latin magus) were priests in Zoroastrianism and the earlier religions of the western Iranians. For other uses, see Magus (disambiguation).
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