are given the names Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar in this Romanesque mosaic from the Basilica of St Apollinarius in Ravenna, Italy. In fact, their number is unknown as it was never stated in the Bible; only that there were three gifts ? the supposition that this implied three givers is speculation.]] depiction of the adoration of the Magi from Strasbourg Cathedral]], designed by Edward Burne-Jones and executed by William Morris, 1882]] The Magi (singular Magus, from Latin, via Greek ????? ; Old English: Mage; from Old Persian magu? and Proto-Kurdish mâgî) were a tribe from ancient Media, who ? prior to the conquest of the Medes by the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BC ? were responsible for religious and funerary practices.Later they accepted the Zoroastrian religion, not without changing the original message of its founder, Zarathustra , to what is today known as Zurvanism, which would become the predominant f

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