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The coast itself is called Hormuz, for Horomazes, Ahura Mazda, the lord of wisdom, God of the Achaemenid Zoroastrians. But the Encyclopedia Britannica says this is a mistake. The name is more likely derived from hur-muz, the “place of dates,” “for the meaning of Moghistan,” as it is called when the Encyclopedia was published in 1911, “means the region of date-palms.” Mogh is a Persian surname, perhaps derived from “magus”, wiseman, the title of a Zoroastrian priest. The confusion is easy to explain. The land of God, or of his priests, or of a small and wrinkled desert fruit that grows in clusters on a palm. The words are similar. Stone tools found in dig sites suggest that the region has been populated for a quarter of a million years.
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