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called a Madonna in the Western tradition), as in "the ''Theotokos'' of Vladimir" both for the original 12th-century icon and for icons that are copies or imitate its composition.

Etymology

Theotokos is an adjectival compound of two Greek words ???? "God" and ????? "childbirth, parturition; offspring". A close paraphrase would be "[she] whose offspring

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