Italy: The Three Magi (Balthasar, Melchior and Gaspar) represented in Persian dress and Phrygian caps in a mosaic at the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, c. 500 CE. Magi (Latin plural of magus; English singular magian, mage, magus, magusian, magusaean) is a term, used since at least the 4th century BCE, to denote followers of Zoroaster, or rather, followers of what the Hellenistic world associated Zoroaster with, which was - in the main - the ability to read the stars, and manipulate the fate that the stars foretold.

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