Magi (;
Latin plural of
magus;
magos;
Kurdish:m
ager,Old Persian:
maguš,
mogh;
English singular
magian,
mage,
magus,
magusian,
magusaean; ,
Turkish:
mecî) is a term, used since at least the 6th century BCE, to denote followers of
Zoroastrianism or
Zoroaster. The earliest known usage of the word Magi is in the trilingual inscription written by
Darius the Great, known as the
Behistun Inscription.
Old Persian texts, pre-dating the Hellenistic period, refer to a Magus as a
Zurvanic, and presumably Zoroastrian, priest.