Tradition etc

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_founders_of_religious_traditions

The founders are at the focal point of revelation which is later amplified or revised on a basis that tradition serves to evolve progressively and enhances the growth of the traditional set of members as they are mature enough to handle a certain level of revelatory truth. Many founders lack the desired historical grounding we would require for a "a factual consensus", not historical as we know history to be. Perhaps meta historical?

Orthodoxy v the non canonical biblical books http://http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_ntb1.htm

Name
Religious tradition founded
Date
En-hedu-ana
priestess of Inanna, earliest
author of religious scripture known by name.
23rd century BCE
Akhenaten
Atenism
14th
century BCE
Zoroaster
Zoroastrianism
Early Iron Age
Solomon
Israelite king who
built the first Temple in Jerusalem
and codified Judaism.
10th
century BCE (Solomon's historicity is uncertain, see also Tel Dan
Stele)
Numa Pompilius
Roman
king who codified and organized the Roman
religion
717 BCE - 673 BCE
Mahavira
The final Tirthankara in Jainism
599 –
527 BCE
Laozi
Taoism
600s BCE
Siddhārtha
Gautama
Buddhism
563 BCE - 483
BCE
Confucius
Confucianism
551 BCE -
479 BCE
Pythagoras
Pythagoreanism
520
BCE
Mozi
Mohism
470 BCE -
390 BCE
Leucippus
Atomism
440 BCE
Plato
Platonic realism
427
BCE - 347 BCE
Epicurus
Epicureanism
307
BCE
Zeno of Citium
Stoicism
333
BCE - 264 BCE
Patanjali
Raja
Yoga
2nd century BCE
Jesus of Nazareth
Early
Christianity
6 BCE - 27 CE (the historicity of
Jesus is disputed by some authors)
Paul
of Tarsus and Simon Peter
Apostles of
Jesus, Paul codified Jesus' teachings to shape Pauline
Christianity while Peter and his successors used their
influence to shape the Christian Church according to a Pauline
interpretation of the gospel
1st century

Once a part and parcel of religion, the origin of the tradition is, often with a touch of miracle and marvel, attributed to a popular religious celebrity. It is here that all practices concerning various phases of life, from birth through initiation into the society, marriage, parentage, and death, take a religious form. Even eating, clothing, waking, walking, working, washing, running, resting, sleeping, and socializing have their religious ways of performing them. Tradition, religious or not, is present in every movement one makes, private, personal or otherwise. It becomes the *prescription* for life. The terms religion and tradition are, as earlier stated, used not only as cognates but also as synonyms. A tradition must develop to further enhance revelation as it unfolds to the understanding of successive ages. Thus a tradition is inseparable from and a necessary adjunct of initial revelation. (MY COMMENTS)