Magician

Magician it comes from magus and this one as well of Greek.

In the old one Persia (present ) existed a chaste one of priests denominated magicians. It says the tradition that these magicians were the followers of Zarathustra (also called Zarathustra) to who teacher and prophet considered like.

The magicians of Persia were including in their religion some subjects or elements of Babylonia, like , demonología and . In its religious ritual they spilled libations of , and honey on a flame and at the same time they intoned prayers and songs. They took white clothes, tiara, and in the hand a beam of branches of tamarisco.

Already in was recognized like wise men and fortune tellers. The magicians who came from , mentioned in (Mateo 2,1-12) they were considered like "wise men". Probably they talked about to these priests coming from Persia. This episode gave origin to the tradition of of East.