Again, I understand what the councils were trying to say.
Saying Mary is the mother of Jesus, however, does not say that Jesus was not God.
Yeah, 10-4.
I was thinking as I read what you wrote that I didn't start out thinking of Theotokos as a "title" but as a sort of "term of art". I really did come to it from the POV of Christology -- Second year, first semester, Church History, Trinitarian and Christological heresies and resolution. So I, at any rate, was not at risk for thinking that somehow Mary was older than God.