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Art: This is from the Luttrell Psalter: a picture in the bottom margin of fol. 87v, one of a series of scenes from the life of Christ.
The Magi, Wise Men, The Three Kings ~ Traveling to Bring Precious Gifts to Jesus ~ also known as ‘The Lamb of God.’
The Star of Bethlehem
The Birth of Lambs in ~ Spring
- Pervasive throughout the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia until late antiquity and beyond, mágos (μάγος) was influenced by (and eventually displaced) Greek goēs (γόης), the older word for a practitioner of magic, 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”.
- In the Gospel of Matthew, “μάγοι” (magoi) from the east do homage to Jesus, a child and the transliterated plural “magi” entered English from Latin in this context around 1200 (this particular use is also commonly rendered in English as “kings” and more often in recent times as “wise men”).The singular “magus” appears considerably later, when it was borrowed from Old French in the late 14th century with the meaning magician. -Wikipedia