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mágos (μ?γο?) was influenced by (and eventually displaced) Greek goēs (γ?η?), the older word for a practitioner of magic, with a meaning expanded to include astronomy, astrology, alchemy, and other forms of esoteric knowledge. This association was in turn the product of the Hellenistic fascination for Pseudo-Zoroaster, who was perceived by the Greeks to be the Chaldean founder of the Magi and inventor of both astrology and magic, a meaning that still survives in the modern-day words "magic" and "magician"
The term only appears twice in Iranian texts from before the 5th century BC, and only one of these can be dated with precision. This one instance occurs in the trilingual of , and which can be dated to about 520 BC. In this trilingual text, certain rebels have magian as an attribute; in the portion as (generally assumed to be a loan word from ). The meaning of the term in this context is uncertain.
The other instance appears in the texts of the , the sacred literature of Zoroastrianism. In this instance, which is in the portion, the term appears in the , meaning "hostile to the ", where does not (as was previously thought) mean "magus", but rather "a member of the tribe" or referred to a particular social class in the proto-Iranian language and then continued to do so in Avestan.
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An unrelated term, but previously assumed to be related, appears in the older Gathic texts. This word, adjectival meaning "possessing ", was once the premise that Avestan and Median (i.e. Old Persian) were (and also that both these were cognates of ). While "in the the word seems to mean both the teaching of Zoroaster and the community that accepted that teaching", and it seems that Avestan is related to Sanskrit , "there is no reason to suppose that the western Iranian form (Magus) has exactly the same meaning" as well. But it "may be, however", that Avestan (which is not the same as Avestan ) "and Medean 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 (priestly) tribe', hence a priest."
Some examples of the use of magi in , are present in the poems of . There are two frequent terms used by him, first one is (literally "the old man of the magi") and second one is (literally "the monastery of the magi").