The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“Parisa kept the archive in clay jars beneath a teaching house east of the Euphrates. Most pages were copies of copies. Some contradicted one another. The bronze seal was real inside the novel and blackened from Persepolis, but she knew symbols could survive more easily than accurate stories.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
Open reconstructionThe chapter is literary theology rather than recoverable event history.
Magi remained known as Iranian priestly specialists, though their exact institutions and beliefs varied across time and place.
Parisa, Ardeshir, Mehrdad, and their archive are fictional; they are not claimed as Matthew's historical Magi.