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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Three_Kings_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Three Kings (disambiguation)">Three Kings (disambiguation)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wise_men_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Wise men (disambiguation)">Wise men (disambiguation)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Three_Wise_Men_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Three Wise Men (disambiguation)">Three Wise Men (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the novel titled Gaspard, Melchior & Balthazar in French, see <a href="/wiki/The_Four_Wise_Men" title="The Four Wise Men">The Four Wise Men</a>.</div> In <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, the Biblical Magi<a href="#cite_note-1">[a]</a> (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmeɪdʒaɪ/</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key">MAY-jy</a> or <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmædʒaɪ/</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key">MAJ-eye</a>;<a href="#cite_note-2">[1]</a> singular: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magus#English" class="extiw" title="wikt:magus">magus</a>), also known as the Three Wise Men, Three Kings, and Three Magi,<a href="#cite_note-3">[b]</a> are distinguished foreigners who visit <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> after his birth, bearing gifts of <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frankincense" title="Frankincense">frankincense</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Myrrh" title="Myrrh">myrrh</a> in homage to him.<a href="#cite_note-4">[2]</a> They are commemorated on the <a href="/wiki/Feast_day" class="mw-redirect" title="Feast day">feast day</a> of <a href="/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)" title="Epiphany (holiday)">Epiphany</a>—sometimes called "Three Kings Day"—and commonly appear in the <a href="/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus" title="Nativity of Jesus">nativity</a> celebrations of <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a>. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Magi_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Magi_%281%29.jpg/290px-Magi_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Magi_%281%29.jpg/435px-Magi_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Magi_%281%29.jpg/580px-Magi_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2035" data-file-height="1535"></a><figcaption>The Three Magi, Byzantine mosaic, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 565, <a href="/wiki/Basilica_of_Sant%27Apollinare_Nuovo" title="Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo">Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ravenna" title="Ravenna">Ravenna</a>, Italy (restored during the 19th century). As here, <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_art" title="Byzantine art">Byzantine art</a> usually depicts the Magi in <a href="/wiki/Persian_clothing" title="Persian clothing">Persian clothing</a>, which includes <a href="/wiki/Breeches" title="Breeches">breeches</a>, capes, and <a href="/wiki/Phrygian_cap" title="Phrygian cap">Phrygian caps</a>.</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Magi" title="Magi">Magi</a> appear solely in the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a>, which states that they came "from the east" (Greek ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν - apo anatolōn) to worship the "one who has been born king of the Jews".<a href="#cite_note-5">[3]</a> Their names, origins, appearances, and exact number are unmentioned and derive from the inferences or traditions of later Christians.<a href="#cite_note-Time-6">[4]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Western_Christianity" title="Western Christianity">Western Christianity</a>, they are usually assumed to have been three in number, corresponding with each gift;<a href="#cite_note-7">[5]</a> in <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern Christianity</a>, especially the <a href="/wiki/Syriac_Christianity" title="Syriac Christianity">Syriac churches</a>, they often number twelve.<a href="#cite_note-8">[6]</a> Likewise, the Magi's social status is never stated: Although some <a href="/wiki/Bible_translations" title="Bible translations">biblical translations</a> describe them as <a href="/wiki/Astrology" title="Astrology">astrologers</a>, they were increasingly identified as kings by at least the third century,<a href="#cite_note-9">[7]</a> which conformed with Christian interpretations of <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament_prophecies" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Testament prophecies">Old Testament prophecies</a> that the <a href="/wiki/Messiah_in_Judaism" title="Messiah in Judaism">messiah</a> would be worshipped by kings.<a href="#cite_note-10">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-11">[9]</a> The mystery of the Magi's identities and background, combined with their theological significance, has made them prominent figures in the <a href="/wiki/Christian_tradition" title="Christian tradition">Christian tradition</a>; they are venerated as saints or even martyrs in many Christian communities, and are the subject of numerous artworks, legends, and customs. Both secular and Christian observers have noted that the Magi popularly serve as a means of expressing various ideas, symbols, and themes.<a href="#cite_note-12">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[12]</a> Most scholars regard the Magi as <a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">legendary</a> rather than historical figures.<a href="#cite_note-Birth_Stories_1999_page_179-15">[13]</a> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Biblical_account">1 Biblical account</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Description">2 Description</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Identities_and_background">3 Identities and background</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Country_of_origin_and_journey">3.1 Country of origin and journey</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Later_interpretations">3.2 Later interpretations</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6"><a href="#Gestures_of_respect">3.2.1 Gestures of respect</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Gifts_of_the_Magi">4 Gifts of the Magi</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Religious_significance_and_traditions">5 Religious significance and traditions</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Hispanic_customs">5.1 Hispanic customs</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Central_Europe">5.2 Central Europe</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Cake">5.3 Cake</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Martyrdom_traditions">5.4 Martyrdom traditions</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Tombs">5.5 Tombs</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#Cultural_depictions">6 Cultural depictions</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Visual_art">6.1 Visual art</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Music">6.2 Music</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Cinema">6.3 Cinema</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Literature">6.4 Literature</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="#See_also">7 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="#References">8 References</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#Citations">8.1 Citations</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Bibliography">8.2 Bibliography</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#Further_reading">9 Further reading</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#External_links">10 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Biblical_account">Biblical account</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biblical account" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Biblical_Magi_stained_glass_window,_ca._1896,_Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_(Rosemont,_Pennsylvania).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Biblical_Magi_stained_glass_window%2C_ca._1896%2C_Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_%28Rosemont%2C_Pennsylvania%29.jpg/180px-Biblical_Magi_stained_glass_window%2C_ca._1896%2C_Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_%28Rosemont%2C_Pennsylvania%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="367" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1001" data-file-height="2040"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 367px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Biblical_Magi_stained_glass_window%2C_ca._1896%2C_Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_%28Rosemont%2C_Pennsylvania%29.jpg/180px-Biblical_Magi_stained_glass_window%2C_ca._1896%2C_Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_%28Rosemont%2C_Pennsylvania%29.jpg" data-width="180" data-height="367" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Biblical_Magi_stained_glass_window%2C_ca._1896%2C_Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_%28Rosemont%2C_Pennsylvania%29.jpg/270px-Biblical_Magi_stained_glass_window%2C_ca._1896%2C_Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_%28Rosemont%2C_Pennsylvania%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Biblical_Magi_stained_glass_window%2C_ca._1896%2C_Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_%28Rosemont%2C_Pennsylvania%29.jpg/360px-Biblical_Magi_stained_glass_window%2C_ca._1896%2C_Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_%28Rosemont%2C_Pennsylvania%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Biblical Magi stained glass window, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1896, at the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_(Rosemont,_Pennsylvania)" title="Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)">Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)</a>, showing the Three Magi with Joseph, Mary, and Jesus.</figcaption></figure> Traditional <a href="/wiki/Nativity_scene" title="Nativity scene">nativity scenes</a> depict three "wise men" visiting the <a href="/wiki/Infant_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Infant Jesus">infant Jesus</a> on the night of his birth, in a manger accompanied by the shepherds and angels, but this should be understood as an artistic convention allowing the two separate scenes of the <a href="/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Shepherds" title="Adoration of the Shepherds">Adoration of the Shepherds</a> on the birth night and the later <a href="/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi" title="Adoration of the Magi">Adoration of the Magi</a> to be combined for convenience.<a href="#cite_note-16">[14]</a> The single biblical account in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Matthew%202&version=nrsv">Matthew 2</a> simply presents an event at an unspecified point after Christ's birth in which an unnumbered party of unnamed "wise men" (μάγοι, mágoi) visits him in a house (οἰκίαν, oikian), not a stable.<a href="#cite_note-Waxman-17">[15]</a> The <a href="/wiki/New_Revised_Standard_Version" title="New Revised Standard Version">New Revised Standard Version</a> of <a href="/wiki/Matthew_2:1" title="Matthew 2:1">Matthew 2:1</a>–<a href="/wiki/Matthew_2:12" title="Matthew 2:12">12</a> describes the visit of the Magi in this manner: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">In the time of <a href="/wiki/Herod_the_Great" title="Herod the Great">King Herod</a>, after Jesus was born in <a href="/wiki/Bethlehem" title="Bethlehem">Bethlehem</a> of <a href="/wiki/Judea" title="Judea">Judea</a>, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, "Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage."<a href="#cite_note-Waxman-17">[15]</a> When King Herod heard this, he was frightened and all Jerusalem with him; and calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born. They told him, "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it has been written by the prophet: 'And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.'" Then Herod secretly called for the wise men and learned from them the exact time when the star had appeared. Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child; and when you have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage." When they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy. On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another path.</blockquote> The text specifies no interval between the birth and the visit, and artistic depictions and the closeness of the traditional dates of December 25 and January 6 encourage the popular assumption that the visit took place the same winter as the birth, but later traditions varied, with the visit taken as occurring up to two winters later. This maximum interval explained Herod's command at <a href="/wiki/Matthew_2:16" title="Matthew 2:16">Matthew 2:16</a>–<a href="/wiki/Matthew_2:18" title="Matthew 2:18">18</a> that the <a href="/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Innocents" title="Massacre of the Innocents">Massacre of the Innocents</a> included boys up to two years old. Some more recent commentators, not tied to the traditional feast days, suggest a variety of intervals.<a href="#cite_note-18">[16]</a> The wise men are mentioned twice shortly thereafter in <a href="/wiki/Matthew_2:16" title="Matthew 2:16">verse 16</a>, in reference to their avoidance of <a href="/wiki/Herod_the_Great" title="Herod the Great">Herod</a> after seeing Jesus, and what Herod had learned from their earlier meeting. The star which they followed has traditionally become known as the <a href="/wiki/Star_of_Bethlehem" title="Star of Bethlehem">Star of Bethlehem</a>.<a href="#cite_note-19">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[18]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Description" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:XV14_-_Roma,_Museo_civilt%C3%A0_romana_-_Adorazione_dei_Magi_-_sec_III_dC_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_12-Apr-2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/XV14_-_Roma%2C_Museo_civilt%C3%A0_romana_-_Adorazione_dei_Magi_-_sec_III_dC_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_12-Apr-2008.jpg/260px-XV14_-_Roma%2C_Museo_civilt%C3%A0_romana_-_Adorazione_dei_Magi_-_sec_III_dC_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_12-Apr-2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="107" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1791" data-file-height="735"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 260px;height: 107px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/XV14_-_Roma%2C_Museo_civilt%C3%A0_romana_-_Adorazione_dei_Magi_-_sec_III_dC_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_12-Apr-2008.jpg/260px-XV14_-_Roma%2C_Museo_civilt%C3%A0_romana_-_Adorazione_dei_Magi_-_sec_III_dC_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_12-Apr-2008.jpg" data-width="260" data-height="107" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/XV14_-_Roma%2C_Museo_civilt%C3%A0_romana_-_Adorazione_dei_Magi_-_sec_III_dC_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_12-Apr-2008.jpg/390px-XV14_-_Roma%2C_Museo_civilt%C3%A0_romana_-_Adorazione_dei_Magi_-_sec_III_dC_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_12-Apr-2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/XV14_-_Roma%2C_Museo_civilt%C3%A0_romana_-_Adorazione_dei_Magi_-_sec_III_dC_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_12-Apr-2008.jpg/520px-XV14_-_Roma%2C_Museo_civilt%C3%A0_romana_-_Adorazione_dei_Magi_-_sec_III_dC_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_12-Apr-2008.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Incised third century A.D. <a href="/wiki/Sarcophagus" title="Sarcophagus">sarcophagus</a> slab depicts the <a href="/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi" title="Adoration of the Magi">Adoration of the Magi</a>, from the <a href="/wiki/Catacombs_of_Rome" title="Catacombs of Rome">Catacombs of Rome</a> - translated as, "Severa, may you live in God", Severa being the woman buried in the sarcophagus and likely the figure to the left of the inscription.</figcaption></figure> The Magi are popularly referred to as wise men and kings. The word magi is the plural of <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:magus">magus</a>, borrowed from <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:μάγος">μάγος</a> (magos),<a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a> as used in the original Greek text of the Gospel of Matthew (in the plural: μάγοι, magoi). The Greek magos itself is derived from <a href="/wiki/Old_Persian" title="Old Persian">Old Persian</a> maguŝ, which in turn originated from the <a href="/wiki/Avestan" title="Avestan">Avestan</a> magâunô, referring to the Iranian priestly <a href="/wiki/Caste" title="Caste">caste</a> of <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrianism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[21]</a> Within this tradition, priests paid particular attention to the stars and gained an international reputation for <a href="/wiki/Astrology" title="Astrology">astrology</a>,<a href="#cite_note-nationalgeographic.com-24">[22]</a> which was at that time highly regarded as a science.<a href="#cite_note-Time-6">[4]</a> Their religious practices and astrological abilities caused derivatives of the term Magi to be applied to the <a href="/wiki/Occult" title="Occult">occult</a> in general and led to the English term <a href="/wiki/Magick_(paranormal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Magick (paranormal)">magic</a>. The <a href="/wiki/King_James_Version" title="King James Version">King James Version</a> translates "magi" as wise men; the same translation is applied to the wise men led by <a href="/wiki/Daniel_(biblical_figure)" title="Daniel (biblical figure)">Daniel</a> of earlier Hebrew Scriptures (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Daniel#2:48" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Daniel">Daniel 2:48</a>). The same word is given as sorcerer and sorcery when describing "<a href="/wiki/Elymas" title="Elymas">Elymas</a> the sorcerer" in <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Acts#13:6" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Acts">Acts 13:6–11</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Simon_Magus" title="Simon Magus">Simon Magus</a>, considered a <a href="/wiki/Heresy" title="Heresy">heretic</a> by the early Church, in <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Acts#8:9" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Acts">Acts 8:9–13</a>. Several translations refer to the men outright as <a href="/wiki/Astrologer" class="mw-redirect" title="Astrologer">astrologers</a> at <a href="/wiki/Matthew_2" title="Matthew 2">Matthew Chapter 2</a>, including <a href="/wiki/New_English_Bible" title="New English Bible">New English Bible</a> (1961); <a href="/wiki/Phillips_New_Testament_in_Modern_English" title="Phillips New Testament in Modern English">Phillips New Testament in Modern English</a> (J.B.Phillips, 1972); <a href="/wiki/Twentieth_Century_New_Testament" title="Twentieth Century New Testament">Twentieth Century New Testament</a> (1904 revised edition); <a href="/wiki/Amplified_Bible" title="Amplified Bible">Amplified Bible</a> (1958, New Testament); <a href="/wiki/An_American_Translation" class="mw-redirect" title="An American Translation">An American Translation</a> (1935, Goodspeed); and <a href="/wiki/The_Living_Bible" title="The Living Bible">The Living Bible</a> (K. Taylor, 1962, New Testament). Although the Magi are commonly referred to as "kings", there is nothing in the Gospel of Matthew that implies they were rulers of any kind. The identification of the Magi as kings is linked to Old Testament prophecies that describe the Messiah being worshipped by kings in <a href="/wiki/Isaiah_60:3" class="mw-redirect" title="Isaiah 60:3">Isaiah 60:3</a>, <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Psalms" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Psalms">Psalm</a> <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Psalms#68:29" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Psalms">68:29</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Psalms#72:10" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Psalms">Psalm 72:10</a>, which reads, "Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations serve him."<a href="#cite_note-25">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-26">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-27">[25]</a> Early readers reinterpreted Matthew in light of these prophecies and elevated the Magi to kings, which became widely accepted by at least 500 A.D.<a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a> Later Christian interpretation stressed the <a href="/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi" title="Adoration of the Magi">adoration of the Magi</a> and shepherds as the first recognition by humans of Christ as the Redeemer. However, the Protestant reformer <a href="/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin">John Calvin</a> was vehemently opposed to referring to the Magi as kings, writing: "But the most ridiculous contrivance of the Papists on this subject is, that those men were kings... Beyond all doubt, they have been stupefied by a righteous judgment of God, that all might laugh at [their] gross ignorance."<a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[28]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Identities_and_background">Identities and background</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Identities and background" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_three_Magi_(Balthasar,_Caspar,_Melchior).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/The_three_Magi_%28Balthasar%2C_Caspar%2C_Melchior%29.jpg/180px-The_three_Magi_%28Balthasar%2C_Caspar%2C_Melchior%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="248" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="254" data-file-height="350"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 248px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/The_three_Magi_%28Balthasar%2C_Caspar%2C_Melchior%29.jpg/180px-The_three_Magi_%28Balthasar%2C_Caspar%2C_Melchior%29.jpg" data-width="180" data-height="248" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/The_three_Magi_%28Balthasar%2C_Caspar%2C_Melchior%29.jpg 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The three Magi (named Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior), from <a href="/wiki/Herrad_of_Landsberg" title="Herrad of Landsberg">Herrad of Landsberg</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Hortus_deliciarum" title="Hortus deliciarum">Hortus deliciarum</a> (12th century)</figcaption></figure> The names and origins of the Magi are never given in scripture, but have been provided by various traditions and legends.<a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a> Among <a href="/wiki/Western_Christianity" title="Western Christianity">Western Christians</a>, the earliest and most common names are: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Melchior_(magus)" title="Melchior (magus)">Melchior</a> (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmɛlkiɔːr/</a>;<a href="#cite_note-Collins2-32">[30]</a> also Melichior).<a href="#cite_note-exbar-33">[31]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caspar_(magus)" title="Caspar (magus)">Caspar</a> (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkæspər/</a> or <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkæspɑːr/</a>;<a href="#cite_note-Collins-34">[32]</a> also Gaspar, Jaspar, Jaspas, Gathaspa,<a href="#cite_note-exbar-33">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-kehrer:70-35">[33]</a> and other variations).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balthazar_(magus)" title="Balthazar (magus)">Balthazar</a> (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈbælθəzɑːr/</a> or <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/bælˈθæzər/</a>;<a href="#cite_note-Collins3-36">[34]</a> also Balthasar, Balthassar, and Bithisarea).<a href="#cite_note-exbar-33">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[35]</a></li></ul> These names first appear in an eighth century religious chronicle, <a href="/wiki/Excerpta_Latina_Barbari" title="Excerpta Latina Barbari">Excerpta Latina Barbari</a>, which is a Latin translation of a lost Greek manuscript probably composed in <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a> roughly two centuries earlier.<a href="#cite_note-exbar-33">[31]</a> Another eighth century text, Collectanea et Flores, which was likewise a Latin translation from an original Greek account, continues the tradition of three kings and their names and gives additional details.<a href="#cite_note-kehrer:66-38">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-patro-39">[37]</a> One candidate for the origin of the name Caspar appears in the <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_Thomas" title="Acts of Thomas">apocryphal Acts of Thomas</a>, which gives the account of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle" title="Thomas the Apostle">Thomas the Apostle</a>'s visit to the <a href="/wiki/Indo-Parthian" class="mw-redirect" title="Indo-Parthian">Indo-Parthian King</a> <a href="/wiki/Gondophares" title="Gondophares">Gondophares I</a> (21– c. 47 AD), also known as Gudapharasa, from which "Caspar" might derive as corruption of "Gaspar". Gondophares had declared independence from the <a href="/wiki/Arsacid_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Arsacid Empire">Arsacids</a> and ruled a kingdom spanning present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. According to historian Ernst Herzfeld, his name is perpetuated in the name of the Afghan city <a href="/wiki/Kandahar" title="Kandahar">Kandahar</a>, which he is said to have founded under the name Gundopharron.<a href="#cite_note-40">[38]</a> Within Eastern Christianity, the Magi have varied names. Among <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Syria" title="Demographics of Syria">Syrian Christians</a>, they are Larvandad, Gushnasaph, and Hormisdas;<a href="#cite_note-41">[39]</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethiopian Orthodox Church">Ethiopian Orthodox Church</a>, they are Hor, Karsudan, and Basanater, while <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Catholic_Church" title="Armenian Catholic Church">Armenian Catholics</a> have Kagpha, Badadakharida and Badadilma.<a href="#cite_note-Acta_Sanct-42">[40]</a><a href="#cite_note-Carols-43">[41]</a> Many <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_China#Christianity_in_the_contemporary_PRC" title="Christianity in China">Chinese Christians</a> believe that one of the magi came from China.<a href="#cite_note-44">[42]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Country_of_origin_and_journey">Country of origin and journey</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Country of origin and journey" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Magi_Journeying_(Les_rois_mages_en_voyage)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Magi_Journeying_%28Les_rois_mages_en_voyage%29_-_James_Tissot_-_overall.jpg/220px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Magi_Journeying_%28Les_rois_mages_en_voyage%29_-_James_Tissot_-_overall.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1481" data-file-height="1024"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 152px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Magi_Journeying_%28Les_rois_mages_en_voyage%29_-_James_Tissot_-_overall.jpg/220px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Magi_Journeying_%28Les_rois_mages_en_voyage%29_-_James_Tissot_-_overall.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="152" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Magi_Journeying_%28Les_rois_mages_en_voyage%29_-_James_Tissot_-_overall.jpg/330px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Magi_Journeying_%28Les_rois_mages_en_voyage%29_-_James_Tissot_-_overall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Magi_Journeying_%28Les_rois_mages_en_voyage%29_-_James_Tissot_-_overall.jpg/440px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Magi_Journeying_%28Les_rois_mages_en_voyage%29_-_James_Tissot_-_overall.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/James_Tissot" title="James Tissot">James Tissot</a>: The Magi Journeying (c. 1890), <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Museum" title="Brooklyn Museum">Brooklyn Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a></figcaption></figure>The phrase "from the east" (ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν, apo anatolon), more literally "from the rising [of the sun]", is the only information Matthew provides about the region from which they came. The <a href="/wiki/Parthian_Empire" title="Parthian Empire">Parthian Empire</a>, centered in <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> (<a href="/wiki/Name_of_Iran" title="Name of Iran">Persia</a>), stretched from eastern Syria to the fringes of India. Though the empire was tolerant of other religions, its dominant religion was <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrianism</a>, with its priestly magos class.<a href="#cite_note-45">[43]</a> Although Matthew's account does not explicitly cite the motivation for their journey (other than seeing the star in the east, which they took to be the star of the King of the Jews), the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament_apocrypha" title="New Testament apocrypha">apocryphal</a> <a href="/wiki/Syriac_Infancy_Gospel" title="Syriac Infancy Gospel">Syriac Infancy Gospel</a> states in its third chapter that they were pursuing a prophecy from their prophet, Zoradascht (Zoroaster).<a href="#cite_note-46">[44]</a> There is an <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church" title="Armenian Apostolic Church">Armenian</a> tradition identifying the "Magi of Bethlehem" as <a href="/wiki/Balthazar_(Magus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Balthazar (Magus)">Balthasar</a> of Arabia, <a href="/wiki/Melchior_(Magi)" class="mw-redirect" title="Melchior (Magi)">Melchior</a> of Persia, and <a href="/wiki/Saint_Caspar" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Caspar">Caspar</a> of India.<a href="#cite_note-47">[45]</a> Historian <a href="/wiki/John_of_Hildesheim" title="John of Hildesheim">John of Hildesheim</a> relates a tradition in the ancient <a href="/wiki/Silk_Road" title="Silk Road">Silk Road</a> city of <a href="/wiki/Taxila" title="Taxila">Taxila</a> (in present-day Punjab, Pakistan) that one of the Magi passed through the city on the way to Bethlehem.<a href="#cite_note-48">[46]</a> Sebastian Brock, a historian of Christianity, has said: "It was no doubt among converts from Zoroastrianism that ... certain legends were developed around the Magi of the Gospels".<a href="#cite_note-49">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[48]</a> And Anders Hultgård concluded that the Gospel story of the Magi was influenced by an Iranian legend concerning magi and a star, which was connected with Persian beliefs in the rise of a star predicting the birth of a ruler and with myths describing the manifestation of a divine figure in fire and light.<a href="#cite_note-51">[49]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Three_kings.tif" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Three_kings.tif/lossless-page1-220px-Three_kings.tif.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="112" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2082" data-file-height="1058"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 112px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Three_kings.tif/lossless-page1-220px-Three_kings.tif.png" data-width="220" data-height="112" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Three_kings.tif/lossless-page1-330px-Three_kings.tif.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Three_kings.tif/lossless-page1-440px-Three_kings.tif.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The Three Wise Kings, <a href="/wiki/Catalan_Atlas" title="Catalan Atlas">Catalan Atlas</a>, 1375, fol. V: "This province is called <a href="/wiki/Tarshish" title="Tarshish">Tarshish</a>, from which came the Three Wise Kings, and they came to <a href="/wiki/Bethlehem" title="Bethlehem">Bethlehem</a> in Judaea with their gifts and worshipped Jesus Christ, and they are entombed in the city of <a href="/wiki/Cologne" title="Cologne">Cologne</a> two days journey from <a href="/wiki/Bruges" title="Bruges">Bruges</a>."</figcaption></figure> A model for the homage of the Magi might have been provided, it has been suggested, by the journey to Rome of King <a href="/wiki/Tiridates_I_of_Armenia" title="Tiridates I of Armenia">Tiridates I of Armenia</a>, with his magi, to pay homage to the <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Nero" class="mw-redirect" title="Emperor Nero">Emperor Nero</a>, which took place in AD 66, a few years before the date assigned to the composition of the Gospel of Matthew.<a href="#cite_note-52">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-53">[51]</a> There was a tradition that the Central Asian <a href="/wiki/Naimans" title="Naimans">Naimans</a> and their Christian relatives, the <a href="/wiki/Keraites" title="Keraites">Keraites</a>, were descended from the biblical Magi.<a href="#cite_note-54">[52]</a> This heritage passed to the Mongol dynasty of <a href="/wiki/Genghis_Khan" title="Genghis Khan">Genghis Khan</a> when <a href="/wiki/Sorghaghtani" class="mw-redirect" title="Sorghaghtani">Sorghaghtani</a>, niece of the Keraite ruler <a href="/wiki/Wang_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Wang Khan">Toghrul</a>, married <a href="/wiki/Tolui" title="Tolui">Tolui</a>, the youngest son of Genghis, and became the mother of <a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6ngke_Khan" title="Möngke Khan">Möngke Khan</a> and his younger brother and successor, <a href="/wiki/Kublai_Khan" title="Kublai Khan">Kublai Khan</a>. Toghrul became identified with the legendary Central Asian Christian king <a href="/wiki/Prester_John" title="Prester John">Prester John</a>, whose Mongol descendants were sought as allies against the Muslims by contemporary European monarchs and popes.<a href="#cite_note-55">[53]</a> <a href="/wiki/Sempad_the_Constable" title="Sempad the Constable">Sempad the Constable</a>, elder brother of King <a href="/wiki/Hetoum_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Hetoum I">Hetoum I</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cilician_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Cilician Armenia">Cilician Armenia</a>, visited the Mongol court in Karakorum in 1247–1250 and in 1254. He wrote a letter to <a href="/wiki/Henry_I_of_Cyprus" title="Henry I of Cyprus">Henry I</a> King of Cyprus and Queen Stephanie (Sempad's sister) from <a href="/wiki/Samarkand" title="Samarkand">Samarkand</a> in 1243, in which he said: "Tanchat [Tangut, or <a href="/wiki/Western_Xia" title="Western Xia">Western Xia</a>], which is the land from whence came the Three Kings to Bethlehem to worship the Lord Jesus which was born. And know that the power of Christ has been, and is, so great, that the people of that land are Christians; and the whole land of Chata [Khitai, or <a href="/wiki/Kara-Khitai" class="mw-redirect" title="Kara-Khitai">Kara-Khitai</a>] believes those Three Kings. I have myself been in their churches and have seen pictures of Jesus Christ and the Three Kings, one offering gold, the second frankincense, and the third myrrh. And it is through those Three Kings that they believe in Christ, and that the Chan and his people have now become Christians."<a href="#cite_note-56">[54]</a> The legendary Christian ruler of Central Asia <a href="/wiki/Prester_John" title="Prester John">Prester John</a> was reportedly a descendant of one of the Magi.<a href="#cite_note-57">[55]</a> In her four volumes of visions of the life of Christ, <a href="/wiki/Anne_Catherine_Emmerich" title="Anne Catherine Emmerich">Anne Catherine Emmerich</a> says that the Magi came from the border between <a href="/wiki/Chaldea" title="Chaldea">Chaldea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elam" title="Elam">Elam</a>, mentioning <a href="/wiki/Ur" title="Ur">Ur</a>, "Mozian" (Iraq's <a href="/wiki/Maysan_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Maysan Province">Maysan Province</a>, anciently known as <a href="/wiki/Characene" title="Characene">Mesene</a>), "Sikdor" (<a href="/wiki/Shushtar" title="Shushtar">Shushtar</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Susa" title="Susa">Susa</a>), and a "city, whose name sounded to me something like Acajaja" (<a href="/wiki/Aghajari" title="Aghajari">Aghajari</a>), as well as other cities farther east.<a href="#cite_note-Emmerich-58">[56]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_interpretations">Later interpretations</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later interpretations" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Caspar_by_Jan_van_Bijlert.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Caspar_by_Jan_van_Bijlert.jpg/180px-Caspar_by_Jan_van_Bijlert.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="253" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1779" data-file-height="2500"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 253px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Caspar_by_Jan_van_Bijlert.jpg/180px-Caspar_by_Jan_van_Bijlert.jpg" data-width="180" data-height="253" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Caspar_by_Jan_van_Bijlert.jpg/270px-Caspar_by_Jan_van_Bijlert.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Caspar_by_Jan_van_Bijlert.jpg/360px-Caspar_by_Jan_van_Bijlert.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Caspar by <a href="/wiki/Jan_van_Bijlert" title="Jan van Bijlert">Jan van Bijlert</a>. Oil on panel. Circa 1640–1650</figcaption></figure> Apart from their names, the three Magi developed distinct characteristics in Christian tradition, so that between them they represented the three ages of (adult) man, three geographical and cultural areas, and sometimes other concepts. In one tradition, reflected in art by at least the 14th century—for example, in the <a href="/wiki/Arena_Chapel" class="mw-redirect" title="Arena Chapel">Arena Chapel</a> by <a href="/wiki/Giotto" title="Giotto">Giotto</a> in 1305—Caspar is old, normally with a white beard, and gives the gold; he is "King of <a href="/wiki/Tarsus,_Mersin" title="Tarsus, Mersin">Tarsus</a>, land of merchants" on the Mediterranean coast of modern Turkey, and is first in line to kneel to Christ. Melchior is middle-aged, giving frankincense from <a href="/wiki/Arabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabia">Arabia</a>, and Balthazar is a young man, very often and increasingly black-skinned, with myrrh from <a href="/wiki/Sabaeans" title="Sabaeans">Saba</a> (modern southern Yemen). Their ages were often given as 60, 40 and 20 respectively, and their geographical origins were rather variable, with Balthazar increasingly coming from <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum" title="Kingdom of Aksum">Aksum</a> or other parts of Africa, and being represented accordingly.<a href="#cite_note-59">[57]</a> Balthazar's blackness has been the subject of considerable recent scholarly attention; in art, it is found mostly in northern Europe, beginning from the 12th century, and becoming very common in the north by the 15th.<a href="#cite_note-60">[58]</a> The subject of which king is which and who brought which gift is not without some variation depending on the tradition. The gift of gold is sometimes associated with Melchior as well,<a href="#cite_note-61">[59]</a> and in some traditions Melchior is the oldest of the three Magi.<a href="#cite_note-62">[60]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Gestures_of_respect">Gestures of respect</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Gestures of respect" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The Magi are described as "falling down", "kneeling", or "bowing" in the worship of Jesus.<a href="#cite_note-mat:202:64-63">[61]</a> This gesture, together with Luke's birth narrative, had an important effect on Christian religious practices.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] They were indicative of great respect, and typically used when venerating a king. While prostration is now rarely practised in the West, it is still relatively common in the Eastern Churches, especially during <a href="/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a>. Kneeling has remained an important element of Christian worship to this day. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Gifts_of_the_Magi">Gifts of the Magi</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Gifts of the Magi" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Gifts of the Magi" redirects here. 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class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="Myrrh" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Commiphora-myrrha-resin-myrrh.jpg/93px-Commiphora-myrrha-resin-myrrh.jpg" decoding="async" width="93" height="84" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="190" data-file-height="171"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 93px;height: 84px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Commiphora-myrrha-resin-myrrh.jpg/93px-Commiphora-myrrha-resin-myrrh.jpg" data-alt="Myrrh" data-width="93" data-height="84" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Commiphora-myrrha-resin-myrrh.jpg/140px-Commiphora-myrrha-resin-myrrh.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Commiphora-myrrha-resin-myrrh.jpg/186px-Commiphora-myrrha-resin-myrrh.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">The three gifts of the magi, left to right: gold, <a href="/wiki/Frankincense" title="Frankincense">frankincense</a> and <a href="/wiki/Myrrh" title="Myrrh">myrrh</a></div></div></div></div> Three gifts are explicitly identified in Matthew: <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frankincense" title="Frankincense">frankincense</a> and <a href="/wiki/Myrrh" title="Myrrh">myrrh</a>; in <a href="/wiki/Koine_Greek" title="Koine Greek">Koine Greek</a>, these are chrysós (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%87%CF%81%CF%85%CF%83%CF%8C%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:χρυσός">χρυσός</a>), líbanos (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:λίβανος">λίβανος</a>) and smýrna (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:σμύρνα">σμύρνα</a>). There are various theories and interpretations of the meaning and symbolism of the gifts, particularly with respect to frankincense and myrrh. The theories generally break down into two groups: <ol><li>All three gifts are ordinary offerings and gifts given to a king. Myrrh being commonly used as an anointing oil, frankincense as a perfume, and gold as a valuable.</li> <li>The three gifts had a spiritual meaning: gold as a symbol of kingship on earth, frankincense (an <a href="/wiki/Incense" title="Incense">incense</a>) as a symbol of deity, and myrrh (an embalming oil) as a symbol of death. <dl><dd><ul><li>This dates back to <a href="/wiki/Origen" title="Origen">Origen</a> in <a href="/wiki/Contra_Celsum" title="Contra Celsum">Contra Celsum</a>: "gold, as to a king; myrrh, as to one who was mortal; and incense, as to a God."<a href="#cite_note-64">[62]</a></li> <li>These interpretations are alluded to in the verses of the popular carol "<a href="/wiki/We_Three_Kings" title="We Three Kings">We Three Kings</a>" in which the magi describe their gifts. The last verse includes a summary of the interpretation: "Glorious now behold Him arise/King and God and sacrifice."</li> <li>Sometimes this is described more generally as gold symbolizing virtue, frankincense symbolizing <a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">prayer</a>, and myrrh symbolizing suffering.</li></ul></dd></dl></li></ol> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:7222_Adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/7222_Adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos.jpg/220px-7222_Adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="182" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3870" data-file-height="3202"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 182px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/7222_Adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos.jpg/220px-7222_Adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="182" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/7222_Adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos.jpg/330px-7222_Adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/7222_Adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos.jpg/440px-7222_Adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Adoración de los Reyes Magos by <a href="/wiki/El_Greco" title="El Greco">El Greco</a>, 1568 (<a href="/wiki/Museo_Soumaya" title="Museo Soumaya">Museo Soumaya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>)</figcaption></figure> Frankincense and myrrh were burned during rituals among Egyptian, Greek and Roman societies. Ancient Egyptians used myrrh to embalm corpses and Romans burned it as a type of incense at funeral pyres.<a href="#cite_note-65">[63]</a> Myrrh was used as an embalming ointment and as a penitential incense in funerals and cremations until the 15th century. The "holy oil" traditionally used by the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a> for performing the sacraments of <a href="/wiki/Chrismation" title="Chrismation">chrismation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Unction" class="mw-redirect" title="Unction">unction</a> is traditionally scented with myrrh, and receiving either of these sacraments is commonly referred to as "receiving the myrrh". The picture of the Magi on the 7th-century <a href="/wiki/Franks_Casket" title="Franks Casket">Franks Casket</a> shows the third visitor – he who brings myrrh – with a <a href="/wiki/Valknut" title="Valknut">valknut</a> over his back, a pagan symbol referring to Death.<a href="#cite_note-66">[64]</a> It has been suggested by scholars that the "gifts" were <a href="/wiki/Medicinal" class="mw-redirect" title="Medicinal">medicinal</a> rather than precious material for <a href="/wiki/Tribute" title="Tribute">tribute</a>.<a href="#cite_note-67">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-68">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[67]</a> The Syrian King <a href="/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator" title="Seleucus I Nicator">Seleucus I Nicator</a> is recorded to have offered gold, frankincense and myrrh (among other items) to <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> in his temple at <a href="/wiki/Didyma" title="Didyma">Didyma</a> near <a href="/wiki/Miletus" title="Miletus">Miletus</a> in 288/7 BC,<a href="#cite_note-70">[68]</a> and this may have been the precedent for the mention of these three gifts in Gospel of Matthew (<a href="/wiki/Matthew_2:11" title="Matthew 2:11">2:11</a>). It was these three gifts, it is thought, which were the chief cause for the number of the Magi becoming fixed eventually at three.<a href="#cite_note-71">[69]</a> This episode can be linked to <a href="/wiki/Isaiah_60" title="Isaiah 60">Isaiah 60</a> and to <a href="/wiki/Psalm_72" title="Psalm 72">Psalm 72</a>, which report gifts being given by kings, and this has played a central role in the perception of the Magi as kings, rather than as astronomer-priests. In a hymn of the late 4th-century <a href="/wiki/Hispanic" title="Hispanic">Hispanic</a> poet <a href="/wiki/Prudentius" title="Prudentius">Prudentius</a>, the three gifts have already gained their medieval interpretation as prophetic <a href="/wiki/Emblem" title="Emblem">emblems</a> of Jesus' identity, familiar in the carol "<a href="/wiki/We_Three_Kings" title="We Three Kings">We Three Kings</a>" by <a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Hopkins,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="John Henry Hopkins, Jr.">John Henry Hopkins, Jr.</a>, 1857. <a href="/wiki/John_Chrysostom" title="John Chrysostom">John Chrysostom</a> suggested that the gifts were fit to be given not just to a king but to God, and contrasted them with the Jews' traditional offerings of sheep and calves, and accordingly Chrysostom asserts that the Magi worshiped Jesus as God. What subsequently happened to these gifts is never mentioned in the scripture, but several traditions have developed.<a href="#cite_note-72">[70]</a> One story has the gold being stolen by the two thieves who were later crucified alongside Jesus. Another tale has it being entrusted to and then misappropriated by <a href="/wiki/Judas_Iscariot" title="Judas Iscariot">Judas</a>. One tradition suggests that Joseph and Mary used the gold to finance their travels when they fled Bethlehem after an angel had warned, in a dream, about <a href="/wiki/Herod_the_Great" title="Herod the Great">King Herod's</a> plan to kill Jesus. And another story proposes the theory that the myrrh given to them at Jesus' birth was used to anoint Jesus' body after his crucifixion. There was a 15th-century golden case purportedly containing the Gift of the Magi housed in the Monastery of St. Paul of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Athos" title="Mount Athos">Mount Athos</a>. It was donated to the monastery in the 15th century by <a href="/wiki/Mara_Brankovi%C4%87" title="Mara Branković">Mara Branković</a>, daughter of the <a href="/wiki/King_of_Serbia" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Serbia">King of Serbia</a> <a href="/wiki/%C4%90ura%C4%91_Brankovi%C4%87" title="Đurađ Branković">Đurađ Branković</a>, wife to the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> <a href="/wiki/Sultan" title="Sultan">Sultan</a> <a href="/wiki/Murat_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Murat II">Murat II</a> and godmother to <a href="/wiki/Mehmet_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Mehmet II">Mehmet II</a> the Conqueror (of <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a>). After the Athens earthquake of September 7, 1999, they were temporarily displayed in <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a> to strengthen faith and raise money for earthquake victims. The relics were displayed in Ukraine and Belarus in Christmas of 2014, and thus left Greece for the first time since the 15th century.<a href="#cite_note-73">[71]</a> According to the book <a href="/wiki/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo" title="The Travels of Marco Polo">The Travels of Marco Polo</a>, gold symbolises the power over the material world as a king on earth, frankincense symbolises the power over the spiritual world as a deity, and myrrh symbolises the healing power over death. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Religious_significance_and_traditions">Religious significance and traditions</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Religious significance and traditions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Play_of_the_Three_Magic_Kings" class="mw-redirect" title="Mystery Play of the Three Magic Kings">Mystery Play of the Three Magic Kings</a></div> Holidays celebrating the arrival of the Magi traditionally recognise a distinction between the date of their arrival and the date of Jesus' birth. The account given in the Gospel of Matthew does not state that they were present on the night of the birth; in the Gospel of Luke, Joseph and Mary remain in Bethlehem until it is time for Jesus' dedication in Jerusalem, after which they return to their home in Nazareth. The visit of the Magi is commemorated in most <a href="/wiki/Western_Christianity" title="Western Christianity">Western Christian</a> churches separately from Christmas. The visit of the Magi is part of the <a href="/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)" title="Epiphany (holiday)">Epiphany</a> on 6 January, which concludes the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_days_of_Christmas" class="mw-redirect" title="Twelve days of Christmas">twelve days of Christmas</a>; on that date the Magi are also celebrated as saints. The <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Orthodox">Eastern Orthodox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox">Greek Orthodox</a> celebrate the visit of the Magi on the same date as their Christmas, which is either 25 December, 6 January, or 7 January, depending on if they follow the <a href="/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar">Gregorian calendar</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Julian_calendar" title="Julian calendar">Julian calendar</a>.<a href="#cite_note-74">[72]</a> One story in <a href="/wiki/Syriac_Christianity" title="Syriac Christianity">Syriac Christianity</a> in the era of the late Roman Empire and early post-Islamic conquest period, the <a href="/wiki/Revelation_of_the_Magi" title="Revelation of the Magi">Revelation of the Magi</a>, indicates that the Magi arrived in April (rather than January). It also implies the Magi arrived before Jesus's birth, while Mary was still pregnant, yet nevertheless a celestial child of the transformed Star of Bethlehem was able to commission them, suggesting that Jesus could be in multiple places at once.<a href="#cite_note-75">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-76">[74]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a> does not contain Matthew's episode of the Magi. However, the Persian Muslim encyclopedist <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Jarir_al-Tabari" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari">al-Tabari</a>, writing in the ninth century, gives the familiar symbolism of the gifts of the Magi, citing the late seventh century Persian-Yemenite writer <a href="/wiki/Wahb_ibn_Munabbih" title="Wahb ibn Munabbih">Wahb ibn Munabbih</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Munabbih2-77">[75]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hispanic_customs">Hispanic customs</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Hispanic customs" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reyes_Magos_en_centro_comercial.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Reyes_Magos_en_centro_comercial.jpg/220px-Reyes_Magos_en_centro_comercial.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Reyes_Magos_en_centro_comercial.jpg/220px-Reyes_Magos_en_centro_comercial.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Reyes_Magos_en_centro_comercial.jpg/330px-Reyes_Magos_en_centro_comercial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Reyes_Magos_en_centro_comercial.jpg/440px-Reyes_Magos_en_centro_comercial.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The Three Wise Men receiving children at a shopping centre in Spain. Letters with gift requests are left in the letterbox on the left-hand side.</figcaption></figure> In much of the <a href="/wiki/Hispanosphere" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanosphere">Spanish-speaking world</a>, the Three Kings (Los Reyes Magos de Oriente, Los Tres Reyes Magos or simply Los Reyes Magos) receive letters from children and so bring them gifts on the night before <a href="/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)" title="Epiphany (holiday)">Epiphany</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, each one of the Magi is supposed to represent a different continent: Europe (Melchior), Asia (Caspar) and Africa (Balthasar). According to the tradition, the Magi come from the <a href="/wiki/Orient" title="Orient">Orient</a> on their <a href="/wiki/Camel" title="Camel">camels</a> to visit the houses of all the children, much like <a href="/wiki/Sinterklaas" title="Sinterklaas">Sinterklaas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Santa_Claus" title="Santa Claus">Santa Claus</a> with his <a href="/wiki/Reindeer" title="Reindeer">reindeer</a> elsewhere. Almost every Spanish city or town organises <a href="/wiki/Cavalcade_of_Magi" title="Cavalcade of Magi">cabalgatas</a> in the evening, in which the kings and their servants parade and throw sweets to the children (and parents) in attendance. The cavalcade of the three kings in <a href="/wiki/Alcoy_(Spain)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcoy (Spain)">Alcoy</a> claims to be the oldest in the world, having started in 1886. The <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Play_of_the_Three_Magic_Kings" class="mw-redirect" title="Mystery Play of the Three Magic Kings">Mystery Play of the Three Magic Kings</a> is also presented on Epiphany Eve. There is also a "Roscón" (Spain) or "Rosca de Reyes" (Mexico). In Spain, the role of Balthazar has always been played by a Spaniard, or "white" person, in <a href="/wiki/Blackface" title="Blackface">blackface</a>. Because so many people have become increasingly offended by this, a campaign of protest to eliminate this practice began in Spain in 2009.<a href="#cite_note-78">[76]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">non-primary source needed</a>]<a href="#cite_note-79">[77]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">non-primary source needed</a>] In Spain and also in Latin America, children prepare a drink for each of the Magi on January 5. It is also traditional to prepare food and drink for the camels, because it is believed that this is the only night of the year when they eat. Not only in Spain, but also in <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paraguay" title="Paraguay">Paraguay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a>, there is a long tradition of children receiving presents by the three "Reyes Magos" on the night of January 5th (Epiphany Eve) or Epiphany morning, January 6th, Día de Reyes, because it is believed that this is the day in which the Magi arrived bearing gifts for the Christ child. In most Latin American countries children also cut grass or greenery on January 5 and fill a box or their shoes with the cuttings for the Kings' camels. They then place the box or their shoes under their bed or beside the Christmas tree. On Epiphany morning the children will find the grass gone from their shoes or box and replaced with candy and other small, sweet treats. In Spain and most Latin American countries, which are predominantly <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a>, the Christmas Season officially starts on December 25 and partially ends on January 7, the day after The Epiphany. In the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a> <a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">territory</a> of <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, however, there are eight more days of celebration called las octavitas (the little eight days). According to the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, the full Christmas Season is from December 25 to <a href="/wiki/Candlemas" title="Candlemas">Candlemas</a> on February 2. In the Philippines, beliefs concerning the Three Kings (Filipino: Tatlóng Haring Mago, lit. "Three Magi Kings"; shortened to Tatlóng Harì or <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language_in_the_Philippines" title="Spanish language in the Philippines">Spanish</a> Tres Reyes) follows Hispanic influence, with the Feast of the Epiphany considered by many Filipinos as the traditional end of <a href="/wiki/Christmas_in_the_Philippines" title="Christmas in the Philippines">their Christmas season</a>. The tradition of the Three Kings' <a href="/wiki/Cavalcade_of_Magi" title="Cavalcade of Magi">cabalgata</a> is today done only in some areas, such as the old city of <a href="/wiki/Intramuros" title="Intramuros">Intramuros</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a>, and the island of <a href="/wiki/Marinduque" title="Marinduque">Marinduque</a>. Another dying custom is children leaving shoes out on Epiphany Eve, so that they may receive sweets and money from the Three Kings. With the arrival of American culture in the early 20th century, the Three Kings as gift-givers have been largely replaced in urban areas by <a href="/wiki/Santa_Claus" title="Santa Claus">Santa Claus</a>, and they only survive in the greeting "Happy Three Kings!" and the <a href="/wiki/Filipino_name" title="Filipino name">surname</a> Tatlóngharì. The Three Kings are especially revered in <a href="/wiki/Gapan,_Nueva_Ecija" class="mw-redirect" title="Gapan, Nueva Ecija">Gapan, Nueva Ecija</a>, where they are enshrined as <a href="/wiki/Patron_saint" title="Patron saint">patron saints</a> in the <a href="/wiki/National_Shrine_of_Virgen_La_Divina_Pastora" class="mw-redirect" title="National Shrine of Virgen La Divina Pastora">National Shrine of Virgen La Divina Pastora</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Central_Europe">Central Europe</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Central Europe" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Chalking_the_door" title="Chalking the door">Chalking the door</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:01_Das_katholische_Fest_der_Heiligen_drei_K%C3%B6nige_2013_in_Sanok.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/01_Das_katholische_Fest_der_Heiligen_drei_K%C3%B6nige_2013_in_Sanok.JPG/220px-01_Das_katholische_Fest_der_Heiligen_drei_K%C3%B6nige_2013_in_Sanok.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="593"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 163px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/01_Das_katholische_Fest_der_Heiligen_drei_K%C3%B6nige_2013_in_Sanok.JPG/220px-01_Das_katholische_Fest_der_Heiligen_drei_K%C3%B6nige_2013_in_Sanok.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="163" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/01_Das_katholische_Fest_der_Heiligen_drei_K%C3%B6nige_2013_in_Sanok.JPG/330px-01_Das_katholische_Fest_der_Heiligen_drei_K%C3%B6nige_2013_in_Sanok.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/01_Das_katholische_Fest_der_Heiligen_drei_K%C3%B6nige_2013_in_Sanok.JPG/440px-01_Das_katholische_Fest_der_Heiligen_drei_K%C3%B6nige_2013_in_Sanok.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Sternsinger – Christmas carolers in <a href="/wiki/Sanok" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanok">Sanok</a>, Poland</figcaption></figure> A tradition in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and German-speaking Catholic areas is the writing of the three kings' initials<a href="#cite_note-80">[c]</a> above the main door of Catholic homes in chalk. This is a new year's blessing for the occupants and the initials also are believed to also stand for "Christus mansionem benedicat" ("May/Let Christ Bless This House").<a href="#cite_note-81">[78]</a> Depending on the city or town, this will be happen sometime between Christmas and the Epiphany, with most municipalities celebrating closer to the <a href="/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)" title="Epiphany (holiday)">Epiphany</a>. Also in Catholic parts of the German-speaking world, these markings are made by the Sternsinger (literally, "<a href="/wiki/Star_singers" title="Star singers">star singers</a>") – a group of children dressed up as the magi.<a href="#cite_note-82">[79]</a> The Sternsinger carry a star representing the one followed by the biblical magi and sing <a href="/wiki/Christmas_carol" title="Christmas carol">Christmas carols</a> as they go door to door, such as "<a href="/wiki/Stern_%C3%BCber_Bethlehem" title="Stern über Bethlehem">Stern über Bethlehem</a>". After singing, the children write the three kings' initials on the door frame in exchange for charitable donations. Each year, German and Austrian dioceses pick one charity towards which all Sternsinger donations nationwide will be contributed.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sternsinger.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Sternsinger.jpg/220px-Sternsinger.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2283" data-file-height="1724"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 166px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Sternsinger.jpg/220px-Sternsinger.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="166" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Sternsinger.jpg/330px-Sternsinger.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Sternsinger.jpg/440px-Sternsinger.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sternsinger" class="mw-redirect" title="Sternsinger">Sternsinger</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>, Austria</figcaption></figure> Traditionally, one child in the Sternsinger group is said to represent Baltasar from Africa and so, that child typically wears blackface makeup.<a href="#cite_note-83">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-84">[81]</a> Many Germans do not consider this to be racist because it is not intended to be a negative portrayal of a black person, but rather, a "realistic" or "traditional" portrayal of one.<a href="#cite_note-85">[82]</a> The dialogue surrounding the politics of traditions involving blackface is not as developed as in Spain or the Netherlands.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In the past, photographs of German politicians together with children in blackface have caused a stir in English-language press.<a href="#cite_note-86">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-87">[84]</a> Moreover, Afro-Germans have written that this use of blackface is a missed opportunity to be truly inclusive of Afro-Germans in German-speaking communities and contribute to the equation of "blackness" with "foreignness" and "otherness" in German culture.<a href="#cite_note-88">[85]</a> In 2010, Epiphany was made a holiday in Poland, thus reviving a pre-World War II tradition.<a href="#cite_note-89">[86]</a> Since 2011, celebrations with biblical costuming have taken place throughout the country. For example, in Warsaw there are processions from <a href="/wiki/Plac_Zamkowy" class="mw-redirect" title="Plac Zamkowy">Plac Zamkowy</a> down <a href="/wiki/Krakowskie_Przedmie%C5%9Bcie" title="Krakowskie Przedmieście">Krakowskie Przedmieście</a> to <a href="/wiki/Plac_Pi%C5%82sudskiego" class="mw-redirect" title="Plac Piłsudskiego">Plac Piłsudskiego</a>.<a href="#cite_note-90">[87]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cake">Cake</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Cake" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/King_cake" title="King cake">King cake</a></div> In Spain and Portugal, a ring-shaped cake (in Portuguese: <a href="/wiki/Bolo-rei" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolo-rei">bolo-rei</a><a href="#cite_note-91">[88]</a>) contains both a small <a href="/wiki/Figurine" title="Figurine">figurine</a> of one of the Magi (or another surprise depending on the region) and a dry <a href="/wiki/Broad_bean" class="mw-redirect" title="Broad bean">broad bean</a>. The one who gets the figurine is "crowned" (with a crown made of cardboard or paper), but whoever gets the bean has to pay the value of the cake to the person who originally bought it. In Mexico they also have the same ring-shaped cake Rosca de Reyes (Kings Bagel or Thread) with figurines inside it. Whoever gets a figurine is supposed to organize and be the host of the family celebration for the <a href="/wiki/Candlemas" title="Candlemas">Candelaria</a> feast on February 2. In France and Belgium, a cake containing a small figure of the baby Jesus, known as the "broad bean", is shared within the family. Whoever gets the bean is crowned king for the remainder of the holiday and wears a cardboard crown purchased with the cake. A similar practice is common in many areas of Switzerland, but the figurine is a miniature king. The practice is known as tirer les Rois (Drawing the Kings). A queen is sometimes also chosen. In <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, parts of southern <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, and surrounding regions, a similar ring-shaped cake known as a "<a href="/wiki/King_Cake" class="mw-redirect" title="King Cake">King Cake</a>" traditionally becomes available in bakeries from Epiphany to <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Mardi_Gras" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans Mardi Gras">Mardi Gras</a>. The baby Jesus figurine is inserted into the cake from underneath, and the person who gets the slice with the figurine is expected to buy or bake the next King Cake. There is wide variation among the types of pastry that may be called a King Cake, but most are a baked cinnamon-flavoured twisted dough with thin frosting and additional sugar on top in the <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Mardi_Gras#Traditional_colors" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans Mardi Gras">traditional Mardi Gras colours</a> of gold, green and purple. To prevent accidental injury or choking, the baby Jesus figurine is frequently not inserted into the cake at the bakery, but included in the packaging for optional use by the buyer to insert it themselves. Mardi Gras-style beads and <a href="/wiki/Doubloon" title="Doubloon">doubloons</a> may be included as well. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Martyrdom_traditions">Martyrdom traditions</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Martyrdom traditions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cologne_Cathedral_Shrine_of_Magi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Cologne_Cathedral_Shrine_of_Magi.jpg/220px-Cologne_Cathedral_Shrine_of_Magi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="759" data-file-height="523"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 152px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Cologne_Cathedral_Shrine_of_Magi.jpg/220px-Cologne_Cathedral_Shrine_of_Magi.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="152" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Cologne_Cathedral_Shrine_of_Magi.jpg/330px-Cologne_Cathedral_Shrine_of_Magi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Cologne_Cathedral_Shrine_of_Magi.jpg/440px-Cologne_Cathedral_Shrine_of_Magi.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Shrine_of_the_Three_Kings" title="Shrine of the Three Kings">Shrine of the Three Kings</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral" title="Cologne Cathedral">Cologne Cathedral</a>, Germany, c. 1200.</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Biblical_canon" title="Biblical canon">Christian scriptures</a> record nothing about the biblical Magi after reporting that they returned to their own country.<a href="#cite_note-92">[d]</a> The Chronicon of Dexter, a <a href="/wiki/Martyrology" title="Martyrology">martyrological text</a> ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Flavius_Lucius_Dexter" class="mw-redirect" title="Flavius Lucius Dexter">Flavius Lucius Dexter</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Barcelona" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Barcelona">bishop of Barcelona</a> under <a href="/wiki/Theodosius_I" title="Theodosius I">Theodosius the Great</a> (379–396) describes "the martyrdom of the holy kings, the three Magi, Gaspar, Balthassar, and Melchior who adored Christ." in "<a href="/wiki/Arabia_Felix" title="Arabia Felix">Arabia Felix</a>, in the city of Sessania of the Adrumeti".<a href="#cite_note-Breen-93">[89]</a> First appearing in 1610, the Chronicon of Dexter was immensely popular throughout the 17th century, particularly in Spain. However, by the 19th century, certain historians and Catholic officials in Rome declared the work a pious forgery.<a href="#cite_note-94">[90]</a> Another competing tradition, most likely originating from Germany, likewise asserts that the biblical Magi were martyred for their faith, albeit without further details.<a href="#cite_note-Breen-93">[89]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tombs">Tombs</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Tombs" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reliquary_Three_Wise_Men_MNMA_Cl23822.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Reliquary_Three_Wise_Men_MNMA_Cl23822.jpg/220px-Reliquary_Three_Wise_Men_MNMA_Cl23822.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="211" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="2400"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 211px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Reliquary_Three_Wise_Men_MNMA_Cl23822.jpg/220px-Reliquary_Three_Wise_Men_MNMA_Cl23822.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="211" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Reliquary_Three_Wise_Men_MNMA_Cl23822.jpg/330px-Reliquary_Three_Wise_Men_MNMA_Cl23822.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Reliquary_Three_Wise_Men_MNMA_Cl23822.jpg/440px-Reliquary_Three_Wise_Men_MNMA_Cl23822.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Journey of the Magi (top) and Adoration of the Magi (side) on a <a href="/wiki/Limoges" title="Limoges">Limoges</a> <a href="/wiki/Champlev%C3%A9" title="Champlevé">champlevé</a> <a href="/wiki/Chasse_(casket)" title="Chasse (casket)">chasse</a>, c. 1200 (<a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_de_Cluny" title="Musée de Cluny">Musée de Cluny</a>, Paris)</figcaption></figure> There are several traditions on where the remains of the Magi are located, none of which have been verified or given veracity by secular historians. <a href="/wiki/Marco_Polo" title="Marco Polo">Marco Polo</a> claimed that he was shown the three tombs of the Magi at <a href="/wiki/Saveh" title="Saveh">Saveh</a>, south of <a href="/wiki/Tehran" title="Tehran">Tehran</a> in present day Iran, in the 1270s: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">In Persia is the city of <a href="/wiki/Sabashahr" title="Sabashahr">Saba</a>, from which the Three Magi set out when they went to worship Jesus Christ; and in this city they are buried, in three very large and beautiful monuments, side by side. And above them there is a square building, carefully kept. The bodies are still entire, with the hair and beard remaining.<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Marco Polo, <a href="/wiki/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo" title="The Travels of Marco Polo">The Book of the Million</a>, <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo/Book_1/Chapter_13">book I, chapter 13</a></cite></div></blockquote> Paul William Roberts provides some modern-day corroboration of this possibility in his book Journey of the Magi.<a href="#cite_note-95">[91]</a> The bones of the Magi are allegedly contained at the <a href="/wiki/Shrine_of_the_Three_Kings_at_Cologne_Cathedral" class="mw-redirect" title="Shrine of the Three Kings at Cologne Cathedral">Shrine of the Three Kings at Cologne Cathedral</a> in Germany. According to tradition, they were first discovered by <a href="/wiki/Helena_of_Constantinople" class="mw-redirect" title="Helena of Constantinople">Helena</a>, mother of <a href="/wiki/Constantine_the_Great" title="Constantine the Great">Constantine the Great</a>, on her famous pilgrimage to <a href="/wiki/Palestine_(region)" title="Palestine (region)">Palestine</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Land" title="Holy Land">Holy Lands</a> in 326–28. She took the remains to the church of <a href="/wiki/Hagia_Sophia" title="Hagia Sophia">Hagia Sophia</a> in <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a>; in 344, they were transferred to Milan<a href="/wiki/Milan" title="Milan">—</a>in some accounts by the city's bishop, <a href="/wiki/Eustorgius_I" title="Eustorgius I">Eustorgius I</a>—where they were interned in a special tomb beneath its basilica.<a href="#cite_note-96">[92]</a> In 1162, following the conquest of the city by <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Emperor</a> <a href="/wiki/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor">Frederick I</a>, the Magi's remains were transferred to <a href="/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral" title="Cologne Cathedral">Cologne Cathedral</a> at the behest of its archbishop, <a href="/wiki/Rainald_of_Dassel" title="Rainald of Dassel">Rainald von Dassel</a>. In response to growing pilgrimages to the relics, von Dassel's successor, Philipp von Hochstaden, commissioned the current <a href="/wiki/Shrine_of_the_Three_Kings" title="Shrine of the Three Kings">Shrine of the Three Kings</a> in the late 12th century, which remains widely visited and venerated.<a href="#cite_note-97">[93]</a> The Milanese treated the fragments of masonry from their now-empty tomb as secondary relics, which were widely distributed around the region, including southern France; this accounts for the frequency with which the Magi appear on <a href="/wiki/Chasse_(casket)" title="Chasse (casket)">chasse</a> <a href="/wiki/Reliquary" title="Reliquary">reliquaries</a> in <a href="/wiki/Limoges_enamel" title="Limoges enamel">Limoges enamel</a> produced in the region.<a href="#cite_note-98">[94]</a> The city continues to celebrate its part in the tradition by holding a medieval costume parade every 6 January. A version of this account is conveyed by 14th century cleric <a href="/wiki/John_of_Hildesheim" title="John of Hildesheim">John of Hildesheim</a> in Historia Trium Regum ("History of the Three Kings"), which begins with the journey of <a href="/wiki/Helena_of_Constantinople" class="mw-redirect" title="Helena of Constantinople">Helena</a> to Jerusalem, where she recovered the <a href="/wiki/True_Cross" title="True Cross">True Cross</a> and other relics: <blockquote>Queen Helen... began to think greatly of the bodies of these three kings, and she arrayed herself, and accompanied by many attendants, went into the Land of Ind... after she had found the bodies of Melchior, Balthazar, and Gaspar, Queen Helen put them into one chest and ornamented it with great riches, and she brought them into Constantinople... and laid them in a church that is called Saint Sophia.</blockquote> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Cultural_depictions">Cultural depictions</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Cultural depictions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi" title="Adoration of the Magi">Adoration of the Magi</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Visual_art">Visual art</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Visual art" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fra_Angelico,_Fra_Filippo_Lippi,_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Fra_Angelico%2C_Fra_Filippo_Lippi%2C_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg/220px-Fra_Angelico%2C_Fra_Filippo_Lippi%2C_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="11480" data-file-height="11480"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 220px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Fra_Angelico%2C_Fra_Filippo_Lippi%2C_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg/220px-Fra_Angelico%2C_Fra_Filippo_Lippi%2C_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="220" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Fra_Angelico%2C_Fra_Filippo_Lippi%2C_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg/330px-Fra_Angelico%2C_Fra_Filippo_Lippi%2C_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Fra_Angelico%2C_Fra_Filippo_Lippi%2C_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg/440px-Fra_Angelico%2C_Fra_Filippo_Lippi%2C_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi_(Fra_Angelico_and_Filippo_Lippi)" title="Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi)">Adoration of the Magi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tondo_(art)" title="Tondo (art)">tondo</a> by <a href="/wiki/Fra_Angelico" title="Fra Angelico">Fra Angelico</a> and <a href="/wiki/Filippo_Lippi" title="Filippo Lippi">Filippo Lippi</a>, c. 1450 (<a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">NGA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington</a>)</figcaption></figure> Most depictions of the Magi in European art focus on their <a href="/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi" title="Adoration of the Magi">visit to Jesus</a>; beginning in the <a href="/wiki/Late_Middle_Ages" title="Late Middle Ages">Late Middle Ages</a>, the Journey of the Magi, the Magi before Herod and the Dream of the Magi. In <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_art" title="Byzantine art">Byzantine art</a> they are depicted as Persians, wearing trousers and <a href="/wiki/Phrygian_cap" title="Phrygian cap">phrygian caps</a>. Crowns appear from the 10th century. Despite being saints, they are very often shown without <a href="/wiki/Halo_(religious_iconography)" title="Halo (religious iconography)">halos</a>, perhaps to avoid distracting attention from either their crowns or the halos of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Family" title="Holy Family">Holy Family</a>. Sometimes only the lead king, kneeling to Christ, has a halo the two others lack, probably indicating that the two behind had not yet performed the act of worship that would ensure their status as saints. Medieval artists also <a href="/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegorised</a> the theme to represent the three <a href="/wiki/Ages_of_Man" title="Ages of Man">ages of man</a>. Beginning in the 12th century, and very often by the 15th, the Kings also represent the three parts of the known (<a href="/wiki/Pre-Columbian" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-Columbian">pre-Columbian</a>) world in Western art, especially in Northern Europe. Balthasar is thus represented as a young African or <a href="/wiki/Moors" title="Moors">Moor</a>, and Caspar may be depicted with distinctly <a href="/wiki/Oriental" class="mw-redirect" title="Oriental">Oriental</a> features. An early <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_art" title="Anglo-Saxon art">Anglo-Saxon depiction</a> survives on the <a href="/wiki/Franks_Casket" title="Franks Casket">Franks Casket</a> (early 7th century, whalebone carving), the only Christian scene, which is combined with pagan and classical imagery. In its composition it follows the oriental style, which renders a courtly scene, with the Virgin and Christ facing the spectator, while the Magi devoutly approach from the (left) side. Even amongst non-Christians who had heard of the Christian story of the Magi, the motif was quite popular, since the Magi had endured a long journey and were generous. Instead of an angel, the picture places a swan-like bird, perhaps interpretable as the hero's <a href="/wiki/Fylgja" title="Fylgja">fylgja</a> (a protecting spirit, and <a href="/wiki/Shapeshifter" class="mw-redirect" title="Shapeshifter">shapeshifter</a>). Austrian artist <a href="/wiki/Gottfried_Helnwein" title="Gottfried Helnwein">Gottfried Helnwein</a> depicted a more controversial tableau in his painting, <a href="/wiki/File:Gh293.jpg" title="File:Gh293.jpg">Epiphany I: Adoration of the Magi</a> (1996). Intended to represent the "many connections between the Third Reich and the Christian churches in Austria and Germany",<a href="#cite_note-99">[95]</a> Nazi officers in uniform stand around an <a href="/wiki/Aryan" title="Aryan">Aryan</a> Madonna. The <a href="/wiki/Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Christ">Christ</a> toddler who stands on Mary's lap resembles <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>.<a href="#cite_note-100">[96]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:La_adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos_(Rubens,_Prado).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/La_adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos_%28Rubens%2C_Prado%29.jpg/220px-La_adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos_%28Rubens%2C_Prado%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3051" data-file-height="2131"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 154px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/La_adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos_%28Rubens%2C_Prado%29.jpg/220px-La_adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos_%28Rubens%2C_Prado%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="154" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/La_adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos_%28Rubens%2C_Prado%29.jpg/330px-La_adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos_%28Rubens%2C_Prado%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/La_adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos_%28Rubens%2C_Prado%29.jpg/440px-La_adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Reyes_Magos_%28Rubens%2C_Prado%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/The_Adoration_of_the_Magi_(Rubens,_Madrid)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Adoration of the Magi (Rubens, Madrid)">The Adoration of the Magi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens" title="Peter Paul Rubens">Peter Paul Rubens</a>, 1609 and 1628-29</figcaption></figure> More generally they appear in popular <a href="/wiki/Nativity_scene" title="Nativity scene">Nativity scenes</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> decorations that have their origins in the <a href="/wiki/Napoli" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoli">Neapolitan</a> variety of the Italian presepio or Nativity crèche. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Music" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Some Christmas carols refer to the biblical Magi or Three Kings, especially hymns meant to be sung by the <a href="/wiki/Star_singers" title="Star singers">star singers</a>, such as "<a href="/wiki/Stern_%C3%BCber_Bethlehem" title="Stern über Bethlehem">Stern über Bethlehem</a>". Peter Cornelius composed a song cycle, <a href="/wiki/Weihnachtslieder,_Op._8_(Cornelius)" title="Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8 (Cornelius)">Weihnachtslieder</a>, Op. 8, which contain the song "Die Könige" (The Kings), which became popular in an English choral arrangement, "<a href="/wiki/The_Three_Kings" title="The Three Kings">The Three Kings</a>". Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior are also featured in <a href="/wiki/Gian_Carlo_Menotti" title="Gian Carlo Menotti">Gian Carlo Menotti</a>'s 1951 opera <a href="/wiki/Amahl_and_the_Night_Visitors" title="Amahl and the Night Visitors">Amahl and the Night Visitors</a>. The popular carol "<a href="/wiki/We_Three_Kings" title="We Three Kings">We Three Kings</a>" is another example. Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata #65 "Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen" ("All they from Saba shall come") also tells about the Wise Men, based on the Old Testament prophesy found in Isaiah 60:6 ("A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praise of the Lord.") <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cinema">Cinema</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Cinema" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Christmas_films" title="List of Christmas films">List of Christmas films</a></div>Numerous films have included these characters in some scenes depicting the Nativity, from <a href="/wiki/The_Life_and_Passion_of_Jesus_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ">The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ</a> (1897) to <a href="/wiki/The_Star_(2017_film)" title="The Star (2017 film)">The Star</a> (2017). In 2003, the Spanish <a href="/wiki/Animated_film" class="mw-redirect" title="Animated film">animated film</a> <a href="/wiki/The_3_Wise_Men" title="The 3 Wise Men">The 3 Wise Men</a> was released, directed by Antonio Navarro and nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Goya_Awards" title="Goya Awards">Goya Awards</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature">Literature</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Literature" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3865" data-file-height="4935"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 281px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="281" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Adoration of the Magi by <a href="/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo" title="Bartolomé Esteban Murillo">Bartolomé Esteban Murillo</a>, c. 1655 (<a href="/wiki/Toledo_Museum_of_Art" title="Toledo Museum of Art">Toledo Museum of Art</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>)</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_van_Dyke" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry van Dyke">Henry van Dyke</a>'s 1895 novella <a href="/wiki/The_Other_Wise_Man" title="The Other Wise Man">The Other Wise Man</a> tells the story of Artaban, a fourth magus whose mission of kindness delays his arrival in Bethlehem by one day, missing Jesus and His parents who by then had <a href="/wiki/Flight_to_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Flight to Egypt">fled to Egypt</a>. The rest of the plot revolves around Artaban traveling the world throughout Jesus' 33 years on Earth and of the protagonist's multiple attempts to pay homage to the Son of God.</li> <li>The first part of <a href="/wiki/Lew_Wallace" title="Lew Wallace">Lewis Wallace</a>'s 1880 novel <a href="/wiki/Ben-Hur:_A_Tale_of_the_Christ" title="Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ">Ben-Hur</a> tells the story of the <a href="/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus" title="Nativity of Jesus">birth of Christ</a> from Balthasar's point of view. Here Balthasar comes from Egypt and is joined by Melchior, a Hindu, and Gaspar, a Greek. Balthasar remains a recurring character throughout the novel.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry">O. Henry</a>'s 1905 short story <a href="/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi" title="The Gift of the Magi">The Gift of the Magi</a> tells of an impoverished couple named Jim and Della Dillingham Young sacrificing their prized possessions to buy each other Christmas gifts. Della sells her long brown hair to buy a platinum fob chain to go with Jim's pocket watch, only to learn that he had sold it to buy ornamental combs for her hair. In addition to the eponymous magi, the text also mentions the <a href="/wiki/Queen_of_Sheba" title="Queen of Sheba">Queen of Sheba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">King Solomon</a>. The narrator ends the story by claiming that (in comparison between the biblical figures' wealth with the Dillingham Youngs' possessions) those who sacrifice the things they value for the people they love are as wise as the magi themselves.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T.S._Eliot" class="mw-redirect" title="T.S. Eliot">T.S. Eliot</a>'s 1927 poem <a href="/wiki/Journey_of_the_Magi" title="Journey of the Magi">Journey of the Magi</a> is told from an aged king's point of view.</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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Culture. 2018-12-24. Retrieved 2024-01-07.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Culture&rft.atitle=Who+were+the+three+kings+in+the+Christmas+story%3F&rft.date=2018-12-24&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalgeographic.com%2Fculture%2Farticle%2Fthree-kings-magi-epiphany&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiblical+Magi" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a> <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Psalms#72:11" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Psalms">Psalm 72:11</a> (King James Version) </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a> "Magi". Encyclopædia Britannica. </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a> s.v. magi. Oxford English Dictionary (Third ed.). April 1910. </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a> Drum, Walter. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09527a.htm">Magi</a>." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 24 Dec. 2016. </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a> Ashby, Chad. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/holidays/christmas/magi-wise-men-or-kings-its-complicated.html">Magi, Wise Men, or Kings? It's Complicated</a>." Christianity Today, December 16, 2016. </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCalvin" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin">Calvin, John</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/calvin/cc31/cc31027.htm">Calvin's Commentaries, Vol. 31: Matthew, Mark and Luke, Part I, tr. by John King</a>. Retrieved 2010-05-15.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Calvin%27s+Commentaries%2C+Vol.+31%3A+Matthew%2C+Mark+and+Luke%2C+Part+I%2C+tr.+by+John+King&rft.aulast=Calvin&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sacred-texts.com%2Fchr%2Fcalvin%2Fcc31%2Fcc31027.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiblical+Magi" class="Z3988"> Quote from Commentary on Matthew 2:1–6 </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a> See Metzger, 23–29 for a lengthy account </li> <li id="cite_note-Collins2-32"><a href="#cite_ref-Collins2_32-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/melchior?showCookiePolicy=true">"Melchior"</a>. Collins Dictionary. n.d. Retrieved 25 September 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Melchior&rft.pub=Collins+Dictionary&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.collinsdictionary.com%2Fdictionary%2Fenglish%2Fmelchior%3FshowCookiePolicy%3Dtrue&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiblical+Magi" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-exbar-33">^ <a href="#cite_ref-exbar_33-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-exbar_33-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-exbar_33-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-exbar_33-3">d</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.attalus.org/translate/barbari.html#51B">Excerpta Latina Barbari, page 51B</a>: "At that time in the reign of Augustus, on 1st January the Magi brought him gifts and worshipped him. The names of the Magi were Bithisarea, Melichior and Gathaspa.". </li> <li id="cite_note-Collins-34"><a href="#cite_ref-Collins_34-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/caspar?showCookiePolicy=true">"Caspar or Gaspar"</a>. Collins Dictionary. n.d. Retrieved 25 September 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Caspar+or+Gaspar&rft.pub=Collins+Dictionary&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.collinsdictionary.com%2Fdictionary%2Fenglish%2Fcaspar%3FshowCookiePolicy%3Dtrue&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiblical+Magi" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-kehrer:70-35"><a href="#cite_ref-kehrer:70_35-0">^</a> Hugo Kehrer (1908), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/dieheiligendrei00kehrgoog#page/n92/mode/1up">Vol. I, p. 70</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uhGJwEmfrEwC&pg=PA66">Online version</a> Kehrer's commentary: "Die Form Jaspar stammt aus Frankreich. Sie findet sich im niederrheinisch-kölnischen Dialekt und im Englischen. Note: O. Baist p. 455; J.P.Migne; Dictionnaire des apocryphes, Paris 1856, vol I, p. 1023. ... So in La Vie de St. Gilles; Li Roumans de Berte: Melcior, Jaspar, Baltazar; Rymbybel des Jakob von Märlant: Balthasar, Melchyor, Jaspas; ein altenglisches Gedicht des dreizehnten oder vierzehnten Jahrhunderts (13th century!!) Note: C.Horstmann, Altenglische Legenden, Paderborn 1875, p. 95; ... La Vie des trois Roys Jaspar Melchior et Balthasar, Paris 1498" </li> <li id="cite_note-Collins3-36"><a href="#cite_ref-Collins3_36-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/balthazar?showCookiePolicy=true">"Balthasar"</a>. Collins Dictionary. n.d. 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("the first [magus], named Melchior, was an old white-haired man, with a full beard and hair, [...]: the king gave gold to our Lord.") Secundum, nomine Caspar, juvenis imberbis, rubicundus, mylenica tunica, sago rubeo, calceamentis hyacinthinis vestitus: thure quasi Deo oblatione digna, Deum honorabat. ("The second, with name Caspar, a beardless boy, [... gave incense].") Tertius, fuscus, integre barbatus, Balthasar nomine, habens tunicam rubeam, albo vario, calceamentis inimicis amicus: per myrrham filium hominis moriturum professus est. ("The third one, dark-haired, with a full beard, named Balthasar, [... gave myrrh].") Omnia autem vestimenta eorum Syriaca sunt. 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Le Leggende orientali sui Magi evangelici, Citta del Vaticano, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHultgård1998" class="citation book cs1">Hultgård, Anders (1998). "The Magi and the Star—the Persian Background in Texts and Iconography". In Schalk, Peter; Stausberg, Michael (eds.). 'Being Religious and Living through the Eyes': Studies in Religious Iconography and Iconology: A Celebratory Publication in Honour of Professor Jan Bergman. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Historia Religionum, 14. Uppsala, Almqvist & Wiksell International. pp. 215–25. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-91-554-4199-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-91-554-4199-9"><bdi>978-91-554-4199-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Magi+and+the+Star%E2%80%94the+Persian+Background+in+Texts+and+Iconography&rft.btitle=%27Being+Religious+and+Living+through+the+Eyes%27%3A+Studies+in+Religious+Iconography+and+Iconology%3A+A+Celebratory+Publication+in+Honour+of+Professor+Jan+Bergman&rft.series=Acta+Universitatis+Upsaliensis%3A+Historia+Religionum%2C+14&rft.pages=215-25&rft.pub=Uppsala%2C+Almqvist+%26+Wiksell+International&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-91-554-4199-9&rft.aulast=Hultg%C3%A5rd&rft.aufirst=Anders&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiblical+Magi" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a> A. Dietrich, "Die Weisen aus dem Morgenlande", Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, Bd. III, 1902, p. 1 14; cited in J. Duchesne-Guillemin, "Die Drei Weisen aus dem Morgenlande und die Anbetung der Zeit", <a href="/wiki/Antaios_(magazine)" title="Antaios (magazine)">Antaios</a>, Vol. VII, 1965, pp. 234–252, 245; cited in Mary Boyce and Frantz Genet, A History of Zoroastrianism, Leiden, Brill, 1991, p. 453, n. 449. </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerzfeld1935" class="citation book cs1">Herzfeld, Ernst (1935). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.16474">Archaeological History of Iran</a>. Schweich Lectures of the British Academy. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 65–6. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/651983281">651983281</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Archaeological+History+of+Iran&rft.place=London&rft.series=Schweich+Lectures+of+the+British+Academy&rft.pages=65-6&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1935&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F651983281&rft.aulast=Herzfeld&rft.aufirst=Ernst&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fin.gov.ignca.16474&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiblical+Magi" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a> In regno Tarsae sunt tres provinciae, quarum dominatores se reges faciunt appellari. Homines illius patriae nominant Iogour. Semper idola coluerunt, et adhuc colunt omnes, praeter decem cognationes illorum regum, qui per demonstrationum stellae venerunt adorare nativitatem in Bethlehem Judae. Et adhuc multi magni et nobiles inveniunt inter Tartaros de cognatione illa, qui tenent firmiter fidem Christi. (In the kingdom of Tarsis there are three provinces, whose rulers have called themselves kings. the men of that country are called Uighours. They always worshipped idols, and they all still worship them except for the ten families of those Kings who from the appearance of the Star came to adore the Nativity in Bethlehem of Judah. And there are still many of the great and noble of those families found among the Tartars who hold firmly to the faith of Christ): Wesley Roberton Long (ed.), La flor de las ystorias de Orient by Hethum prince of Khorghos, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1934, pp. 53, 111, 115; cited in Ugo Monneret de Villard, Le Leggende orientali sui Magi evangelici, Citta del Vaticano, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1952, p. 161. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=x9tEAAAAcAAJ">Hayton, Haithoni Armeni ordinis Praemonstratenis de Tartaris liber, Simon Grynaeus Johannes Huttichius, Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum, Basel, 1532, caput ii, De Regno Tarsae, p. 420</a> "The people of these countrees be named Iobgontans [Uighurs], and at all tymes they haue been idolaters, and so they contynue to this present day, save the nacion or kynred of those thre kynges which came to worshyp Our Lorde Ihesu Chryst at his natiuyte by demonstracyon of the sterre. And the linage of the same thre kynges be yet vnto this day great lordes about the lande of Tartary, which ferme and stedfastly beleue in the fayth of Christ": Hetoum, A Lytell Cronycle: Richard Pynson's Translation (c. 1520) of La Fleur des Histoires de la Terre d'Orient, edited by Glenn Burger, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1988, Of the realme of Tharsey, p. 8, lines 29–38. </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a> Friedrich Zarncke, "Der Priester Johannes", Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Classe der Koeniglichen Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Leipzig, Band VII, Heft 8, 1879, S.826–1028; Band I, Heft 8, 1883, S. 1–186), re-published in one volume by G. Olms, Hildesheim, 1980. </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a> Letter of Sempad the Constable to the King and Queen of Cyprus, 1243, in Henry Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither, Oxford, Hakluyt society, 1866, Vol.I, pp. cxxvii, 262–3." </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a> Fertur enim iste de antiqua progenie illorum, quorum in Evangelio mentio fit, esse Magorum, eisdemque, quibus et isti, gentibus imperans, tanta gloria et habundancia frui, ut non nisi sceptro smaragdino uti dicatur (It is reported that he is the descendant of those Magi of old who are mentioned in the Gospel, and to rule over the same nations as they did, enjoying such glory and prosperity that he uses no sceptre but one of emerald). Otto von Freising, Historia de Duabus Civitatibus, 1146, in Friedrich Zarncke, Der Priester Johannes, Leipzig, Hirzel, 1879 (repr. 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Chanzit, 2006 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.helnwein.com/texte/selected_authors/artikel_2206.html">[1]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080609125440/http://www.helnwein.com/texte/selected_authors/artikel_2206.html">Archived</a> 2008-06-09 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Bibliography" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li>Giffords, Gloria Fraser, Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light: The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530–1821, 2007, University of Arizona Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0816525897" title="Special:BookSources/0816525897">0816525897</a>, 9780816525898, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=erEYlKTP_ZEC&pg=PA383">google books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Metzger" class="mw-redirect" title="Bruce Metzger">Metzger, Bruce</a>, New Testament Studies: Philological, Versional, and Patristic, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NrEeAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA25">Volume 10</a>, 1980, BRILL, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9004061630" title="Special:BookSources/9004061630">9004061630</a>, 9789004061637.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Penny" title="Nicholas Penny">Penny, Nicholas</a>, National Gallery Catalogues (new series): The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume II, Venice 1540–1600, 2008, National Gallery Publications Ltd, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1857099133" title="Special:BookSources/1857099133">1857099133</a></li> <li>Schiller, Gertud, Iconography of Christian Art, Vol. I, 1971 (English trans from German), Lund Humphries, London, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0853312702" title="Special:BookSources/0853312702">0853312702</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Further reading" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_F._Albright" title="William F. Albright">Albright, W. F.</a>, and C. S. Mann. "Matthew." <a href="/wiki/The_Anchor_Bible_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="The Anchor Bible Series">The Anchor Bible Series</a>. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1971.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBaxter1823" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Roger_Baxter" title="Roger Baxter">Baxter, Roger</a> (1823). <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Meditations_For_Every_Day_In_The_Year/FROM_CHRISTMAS_TO_SEPTUAGESIMA_SUNDAY.#110">"Journey of the Wise Men" </a>. Meditations For Every Day In The Year. New York: Benziger Brothers. pp. 110–119.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Journey+of+the+Wise+Men&rft.btitle=Meditations+For+Every+Day+In+The+Year&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=110-119&rft.pub=Benziger+Brothers&rft.date=1823&rft.aulast=Baxter&rft.aufirst=Roger&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiblical+Magi" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Becker, Alfred: Franks Casket. Zu den Bildern und Inschriften des Runenkästchens von Auzon (Regensburg, 1973) pp. 125–142, Ikonographie der Magierbilder, Inschriften.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBenecke1900" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Benecke, P. V. M. (1900). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/hastings/dictv3/Page_203.html">"Magi"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/James_Hastings" title="James Hastings">James Hastings</a> (ed.). <a href="/wiki/Hastings%27_Dictionary_of_the_Bible" title="Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible">A Dictionary of the Bible</a>. Vol. III. pp. 203–206.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Magi&rft.btitle=A+Dictionary+of+the+Bible&rft.pages=203-206&rft.date=1900&rft.aulast=Benecke&rft.aufirst=P.+V.+M.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ccel.org%2Fccel%2Fhastings%2Fdictv3%2FPage_203.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiblical+Magi" class="Z3988"></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_E._Brown" title="Raymond E. Brown">Brown, Raymond E.</a> The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke. London: G. Chapman, 1977.</li> <li>Clarke, Howard W. (2003). The Gospel of Matthew and its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChrysostom1885" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Chrysostom" title="John Chrysostom">Chrysostom, John</a> (1885). <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers:_Series_I/Volume_X/The_Homilies_of_St._John_Chrysostom/Homily_6">"Homily VI. on Matt. II. 1, 2." </a>. Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Volume X. Translated by Philip Schaff. T. & T. Clark in Edinburgh.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Homily+VI.+on+Matt.+II.+1%2C+2.&rft.btitle=Ante-Nicene+Christian+Library%2C+Volume+X&rft.pub=T.+%26+T.+Clark+in+Edinburgh&rft.date=1885&rft.aulast=Chrysostom&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiblical+Magi" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDrum1910" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Drum, Walter (1910). <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Magi">"Magi" </a>. In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia" title="Catholic Encyclopedia">Catholic Encyclopedia</a>. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Magi&rft.btitle=Catholic+Encyclopedia&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Robert+Appleton+Company&rft.date=1910&rft.aulast=Drum&rft.aufirst=Walter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiblical+Magi" class="Z3988"></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eric_Vanden_Eykel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eric Vanden Eykel (page does not exist)">Eric Vanden Eykel</a> The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate Fortress Press, 2022.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._T._France" title="R. T. France">France, R. T.</a> The Gospel According to Matthew: An Introduction and Commentary. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1985.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_H._Gundry" title="Robert H. Gundry">Gundry, Robert H.</a> Matthew: A Commentary on his Literary and Theological Art. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1982.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHegedus2003" class="citation journal cs1">Hegedus, Tim (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.7202%2F000790ar">"The Magi and the Star in the Gospel of Matthew and Early Christian Tradition"</a>. Laval Théologique et Philosophique. 59 (1): 81–95. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.7202%2F000790ar">10.7202/000790ar</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Laval+Th%C3%A9ologique+et+Philosophique&rft.atitle=The+Magi+and+the+Star+in+the+Gospel+of+Matthew+and+Early+Christian+Tradition&rft.volume=59&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=81-95&rft.date=2003&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.7202%2F000790ar&rft.aulast=Hegedus&rft.aufirst=Tim&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.7202%252F000790ar&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiblical+Magi" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Hill, David. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981</li> <li>Lambert, John Chisholm, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OJUAAAAAMAAJ">A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels</a>. pp. 97–101.</li> <li>Levine, Amy-Jill. "Matthew." Women's Bible Commentary. Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe, eds. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.</li> <li>Molnar, Michael R., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jZ2tpi0qIFgC">The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi</a>. Rutgers University Press, 1999. 187 pp. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8135-2701-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-8135-2701-5">0-8135-2701-5</a></li> <li>Powell, Mark Allan. "The Magi as Wise Men: Re-examining a Basic Supposition." New Testament Studies. Vol. 46, 2000.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eduard_Schweizer" title="Eduard Schweizer">Schweizer, Eduard</a>. The Good News According to Matthew. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1975.</li> <li>Trexler, Richard C. Journey of the Magi: Meanings in History of a Christian Story. Princeton University Press, 1997.</li> <li>Watson, Richard, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NqMOAAAAIAAJ">A Biblical and Theological Dictionary</a>, pp. 608–611.</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Biblical_Magi&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: External links" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output 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data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Alemannisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A9" title="المجوس الثلاثة – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="المجوس الثلاثة" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arc mw-list-item"><a href="https://arc.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DC%A1%DC%93%DC%98%DC%AB%DC%90_%DC%AC%DC%A0%DC%AC%DC%90" title="ܡܓܘܫܐ ܬܠܬܐ – Aramaic" lang="arc" hreflang="arc" data-title="ܡܓܘܫܐ ܬܠܬܐ" data-language-autonym="ܐܪܡܝܐ" data-language-local-name="Aramaic" class="interlanguage-link-target">ܐܪܡܝܐ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbohapy_Karai_Imba%27ekua%C3%A1va" title="Mbohapy Karai Imba'ekuaáva – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Mbohapy Karai Imba'ekuaáva" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Avañe'ẽ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9C%C3%A7_m%C3%BCq%C9%99dd%C9%99s_kral" title="Üç müqəddəs kral – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Üç müqəddəs kral" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D1%8B_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%96" title="Тры каралі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Тры каралі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D1%8B_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%96" title="Тры каралі – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Тры каралі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B2%D0%BB%D1%8A%D1%85%D0%B2%D0%B8" title="Тримата влъхви – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Тримата влъхви" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveta_tri_kralja" title="Sveta tri kralja – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Sveta tri kralja" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri_Roue" title="Tri Roue – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Tri Roue" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reis_d%27Orient" title="Reis d'Orient – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Reis d'Orient" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%99i_kr%C3%A1lov%C3%A9" title="Tři králové – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Tři králové" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A8_Magi" title="Rè Magi – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Rè Magi" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target">Corsu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellige_tre_konger" title="Hellige tre konger – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Hellige tre konger" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilige_Drei_K%C3%B6nige" title="Heilige Drei Könige – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Heilige Drei Könige" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hommikumaa_targad" title="Hommikumaa targad – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Hommikumaa targad" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%82_%CE%9C%CE%AC%CE%B3%CE%BF%CE%B9" title="Τρεις Μάγοι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Τρεις Μάγοι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reyes_Magos" title="Reyes Magos – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Reyes Magos" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri_re%C4%9Doj" title="Tri reĝoj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Tri reĝoj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errege_Magoak" title="Errege Magoak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Errege Magoak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%BA" title="سه مغ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سه مغ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rois_mages" title="Rois mages – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Rois mages" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizen_%C3%BAt_it_Easten" title="Wizen út it Easten – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Wizen út it Easten" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Tri%C3%BAr_Saoithe" title="An Triúr Saoithe – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="An Triúr Saoithe" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reis_Magos" title="Reis Magos – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Reis Magos" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%99%EB%B0%A9_%EB%B0%95%EC%82%AC" title="동방 박사 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="동방 박사" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B5%D6%80%D5%A5%D6%84_%D5%B4%D5%B8%D5%A3%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Երեք մոգեր – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Երեք մոգեր" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveta_tri_kralja" title="Sveta tri kralja – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Sveta tri kralja" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang-orang_majus_dari_Timur" title="Orang-orang majus dari Timur – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Orang-orang majus dari Timur" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reges_Magos" title="Reges Magos – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Reges Magos" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magi_(Bibbia)" title="Magi (Bibbia) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Magi (Bibbia)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D" title="שלושת האמגושים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שלושת האמגושים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majusi" title="Majusi – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Majusi" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magi_(Biblia)" title="Magi (Biblia) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Magi (Biblia)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C4%ABs_Austrumu_gudrie" title="Trīs Austrumu gudrie – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Trīs Austrumu gudrie" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helleg_dr%C3%A4i_Kinneken" title="Helleg dräi Kinneken – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Helleg dräi Kinneken" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trys_karaliai" title="Trys karaliai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Trys karaliai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drie_keuninge" title="Drie keuninge – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Drie keuninge" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Limburgs</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napkeleti_b%C3%B6lcsek" title="Napkeleti bölcsek – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Napkeleti bölcsek" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA" title="Мудреци од исток – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Мудреци од исток" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magy_ao_amin%27_ny_Baiboly" title="Magy ao amin' ny Baiboly – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Magy ao amin' ny Baiboly" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaten_Ma%C4%A1i" title="Slaten Maġi – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Slaten Maġi" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87" title="المجوس التلاته – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="المجوس التلاته" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiga_Majus" title="Tiga Majus – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Tiga Majus" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wijzen_uit_het_oosten" title="Wijzen uit het oosten – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Wijzen uit het oosten" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E6%96%B9%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%89%E5%8D%9A%E5%A3%AB" title="東方の三博士 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="東方の三博士" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_tre_vise_menn" title="De tre vise menn – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="De tre vise menn" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilage_tre_kongar" title="Heilage tre kongar – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Heilage tre kongar" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reis_Magues" title="Reis Magues – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Reis Magues" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trzej_Kr%C3%B3lowie" title="Trzej Królowie – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Trzej Królowie" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%AAs_Reis_Magos" title="Três Reis Magos – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Três Reis Magos" 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