Theocracy and hierocracy. Two forms of religious cratogony in early political theology

The aim of the article is symbolic-functional analysis of development judicial awareness. This paper analysesthe transition period from the traditional political theology of the main political structures in the MiddleEast to the reflecting political thought of Ancient Greece. In order to elaborate this idea, two independentbut closely related phenomena of civilization – force (warriors) and the law (priests) – were chosen andthe analysis of their history of interaction was given. The principles of law and justice were constructedtheo-politically based on two different conceptions of order. According to this, it is possible to concider thegeo-cultural habitats of Mesopotamia and Egypt as two independently developed civilisational platformsor laboratories of social construct. Their heritage of political justice and practice of the political was successfullyinhereted and peculiarly transformed by the developing polis system of Ancient Greece