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One of the earliest depictions of the Mother of God as the Unburnt Bush shows her holding her divine Son in the midst of a burning bush. Moses is shown to one side, removing his sandals, for that place was holy (Exodus. 3:5).
An icon from the Solovki Monastery that was , painted in the 16th to 17th centuries. The , shows the Heavenly Jerusalem is depicted on her the chest, while in of the Theotokos. In the four corners of the icon are prophecies, the hierarchies of angels and nature surround her, and the . The presence of the [[Ancient of Days]] is in the eight-pointed star.
==Symbolism==
