The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“A drought struck villages along the caravan road. The teaching house sold silver vessels to buy grain. Some patrons complained that sacred objects had been profaned. Mehrdad answered that a vessel serving hunger had finally become sacred.”
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.