>>20508876>MAGI were highly respected across the ancient word, Aristotle wroteIronic that the Persians considered them Devas/Ahriman worshiping heretics.
>The Magi>The history of the Persians is practically undocumented prior to their conquest of Babylon under Cyrus the Great. The Persians are regarded as an Indo-European people who, by the sixth century BC, had settled in Parsa, Greek Persis or modern Fars, the mountainous region east of the Persian Gulf’s northern coastline, or much of what is today known as Iran. Cyrus’ career began in 560 BC, when, as heir to the ruling Persian Achaemenid dynasty, the official name for the Persian royal family, he inherited the title of king. In 547 BC, he defeated Croessus, the king of Lydia, who had ruled all of Asia Minor west of the Halys River, and brought the Greek cities of Ionia on the coast into his realm. He briefly turned his attention to the east before aiming towards the principal power in his path, Babylon, which he took in 539 BC, without casualties, inaugurating the Neo-Babylonian empire 