Mobad
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A mobed, mowbed, or mobad is a Zoroastrian cleric of a particular rank. Unlike a herbad, a mobed is qualified to serve as celebrant priest at the Yasna ceremony and other higher liturgical ceremonies.
Golden statuettes of two mobads, Oxus Treasure
Magi
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Magi, or magus, is the term for priests in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions. The earliest known use of the word magi is in the trilingual inscription written by Darius the Great, known as
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…𐎶𐎦𐏁, romanized: maguš and Ancient Greek: μάγος, romanized: magos, proto-Iranian *magu- is also identified as the origin of the Latin word magus, a "magian". Through the Greek adjective Ancient Greek: μαγικός, romanized: magikos and Old French: magique, mobed is distantly related to the English language…
Zoroastrian Magus carrying barsom from the Oxus Treasure of the Achaemenid Empire, 4th century BC
Incised sarcophagus slab with the Adoration of the Magi from the Catacombs of Rome, 3rd century
Byzantine depiction of the Three Magi in a 6th-century mosaic at Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo