Arabian Adventures for DF

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by Verjigorm

Well, the Wisemen were not "Wizards" in the sense that they threw fireballs or lightning bolt, or trafficked with spirits. They were simply the priests of the Zorasterian religion, which heavily influenced Christian and Islamic thought. They did apparently practice some form of astrology/primitive astronomy, as almost all religious castes appear to have done.

But if we ascribe them supernatural powers, then those powers come from a Godly source: they are "clerics" more than "Wizards" or "sorcerors".

Uh-huh, though I believe I remember that the cliche cone hat was originally Zoroastrian.

There was too, if I remember, some confusion as to what Zoroaster actually taught. Some Greeks thought him a sorcerer of the spell-casting sort when he was actually closer to Jews or even some of the more refined Greek philosophers.

Speaking of that, I have a parsee cookbook in my kindle. It has a few other things, including bits on ritual, the parsee calendar, and pieces of folklore.