About Magi
In Iranian sources
The Avestan word 'magâunô', i.e. the religious caste of the Medes into which Prophet Zoroaster was born.
Avestan moghu (which is not the same as Avestan maga-) "and Medean magu were the same word in origin, a common Iranian term for 'member of the tribe' having developed among the Medes the special sense of 'member of the (priestly) tribe', hence a priest
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