Who was Mary/Musa?
Mary was a Jewish concubine given by the Roman Emperor Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD) to King Phraates IV of Parthia (37–2 BC). Around the same time, Augustus recovered the eagle standards (Aquilae) lost by Marcus Licinius Crassus in the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.Phraates IV made her his favored wife; he appointed her son Phraates V (2 BC – 4), commonly called Phraataces (a diminutive form), as his successor. She persuaded Phraates IV to send his other sons to Rome as hostages.
With all rivals out of the way, Mary and Phraataces poisoned the king and assumed the throne in 2 BC. They appear together on their coins, and were apparently co-rulers.
Jewish historian Josephus alleges that Mary then married her son Phraates V, and, this being unacceptable to the Parthians, so she was exiled to Judea, however she was pregnant.
What is the meaning of xwēdōdah in Zoroastrianism?
In Zoroastrian Middle Persian (Pahlavi) texts, the term xwēdōdah (Av. xᵛaētuuadaθa) is said to refer to marital unions of father and daughter, mother and son, or brother and sister (next-of-kin or close-kin marriage, nuclear family incest), and to be one of the most pious actions possible.
The son of mother and son is Saoshyant, an eschatological saviour figure who bring about Frashokereti, the final renovation of the world in which evil is finally destroyed.
And there were three Zoroastrian Magi who travelled from the East to see and to worship the Saviour (Jesus in Hebrew) in Judea, he was actually the son of Mary and her son.
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