An Overview of the Creation of the 35 Tribes of Rome

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With a tribe established at 12 centuries representing 12 years (one year per century), the 21 tribes' amount to 252 years, broken into three hebdomad periods each of seven tribes and 84 years, or two Pythagorean tones of 126 years, thereby technically producing the following timeline: (1)

753 BC to 741 BC     1st tribe
741 BC to 729 BC     2nd tribe
729 BC to 717 BC     3rd tribe
717 BC to 705 BC     4th tribe
705 BC to 693 BC     5th tribe
693 BC to 681 BC     6th tribe
681 BC to 669 BC     7th tribe (1st hebdomad)
669 BC to 657 BC     8th tribe
657 BC to 645 BC     9th tribe
645 BC to 633 BC   10th tribe
633 BC to 621 BC   11th tribe
621 BC to 609 BC   12th tribe
609 BC to 597 BC   13th tribe
597 BC to 585 BC   14th tribe (2nd hebdomad)
585 BC to 573 BC   15th tribe
573 BC to 561 BC   16th tribe
561 BC to 549 BC   17th tribe
549 BC to 537 BC   18th tribe
537 BC to 525 BC   19th tribe
525 BC to 513 BC   20th tribe (Pythagoras at Rome)
513 BC to 501 BC   21st tribe (3rd hebdomad)

The 21 tribes represent the 12:9 of the Pythagorean 6-8-9-12 tetrachord (12 + 9 = 21). With the 21 tribes each representing 12 years, the 12:9 of the tetrachord represents 252 years, consisting of:

12 x 12 years   = 144 years
 9 x 12 years   = 108 years
Total             252 years

After a period of 126 years had elapsed, in 375 BC, the 126,000 stadia travelled in the Pythagorean cosmos from 501 BC to 375 BC, will be converted to 12,600 men and then added to the 21 tribes, thereby increasing each of the 21 tribes from 12 centuries (1,200 men) to 18 centuries (1,800 men) per tribe. From 375 BC, the remaining 14 tribes each of 18 centuries (18 years) represent the eight-six of the Pythagorean tetrachord (8 + 6 = 14), and represent a period of 252 years:

8 x 18 years   = 144 years
6 x 18 years   = 108 years
Total             252 years

In this manner, each of the 35 tribes now represented 18 years per tribe (630 years divided by 35 tribes = 18 years per tribe). It appears that the original 12 centuries in a tribe symbolically represent the 12 vultures sighted by Romulus before he founded Rome, and the additional six centuries that were added to each of the 21 tribes in 375 BC, represent the six vultures observed by Remus, Romulus' twin brother. (2) This would indicate the story of the sighting of the vultures was at a later fabrication based on the Roman tribal system.

From 375 BC to 228 BC, this leaves a period of around 147 years for the creation of the remaining 14 tribes, thereby allocating each tribe a period of around 10 and a half years. With the remaining 14 tribes to be created in pairs, each pair of tribes represented 21 years, and would technically be created on the following time line:

21st tribe           501 BC
22nd and 23rd tribes   354 BC
24th and 25th tribes   333 BC
26th and 27th tribes   312 BC
28th and 29th tribes   291 BC
30th and 31st tribes   270 BC
32nd and 33rd tribes   249 BC
34th and 35th tribes   228 BC

However, after the creation of the 20 tribes, the remaining 15 tribes were created in the following time line:

21st tribe           495 BC
22nd and 23rd tribes   387 BC
24th and 25th tribes   387 BC
26th and 27th tribes   357 BC
28th and 29th tribes   333 BC
30th and 31st tribes   318 BC
32nd and 33rd tribes   299 BC
34th and 35th tribes   241 BC

The alteration of the timetable for the creation of the 35 tribes came about through mistakes made by the Roman priesthood and Rome's need to increase the number of legions able to be levied from the tribal system. In all fairness to the Roman priesthood, as already detailed, trying to adhere to a system that had four major and varying time systems designed for a period of 1,260 years, would be almost daunting to track and the possibilities of mistakes occurring would be unescapable.

The first mistake by the Roman priesthood concerned the creation of the 21st tribe, which is surprising as it was only 18 years after Pythagoras had designed the system. With a century equivalent to one year of time, the 252 centuries for the 21 tribes translates to 252 years; and when subtracted from Rome's founding date of 753 BC, the result is the year 501 BC, which is the year the 21st tribe (the Clustumina tribe) should have been created. However, the creation of the 21st tribe occurred 18 years after 513 BC, and represents 258 years since Rome's founding in 753 BC. This indicates the Roman priesthood could have divided the 630 years designed by Pythagoras for the creation of the 35 tribes (753 BC to 228 BC), by the 35 tribes, thereby allocating each tribe 18 years, which was then added to the year 240 A.U.C (513 BC), producing the year 252 A.U.C (495 BC). In the original Pythagorean system, a Roman tribe representing 18 years was designed by Pythagoras to be introduced in 375 BC, in accordance with the third Pythagorean tone (378 years). Coincidentally, by adding the 252 years for the 21 tribes to the year 495 BC, when the 21st tribe was created, this produces the year 747 BC, which coincidentally is the very year the Roman historian Fabius Pictor, who wrote Rome's first history, had declared was Rome's founding date.

The four tribes created in 387 BC was the result of an error and Rome's need for more legions. The mistake made by the Roman priesthood was they selected the wrong calibration date for the introduction of the third Pythagorean tone. Instead of the third of 126 years being deducted from the year 501 BC, thereby producing the year 375 BC, the Roman priesthood incorrectly selected the year 513 BC as the calibration point, the year the 20 tribes were created by Pythagoras, and after deducting the 126 years from 513 BC, this resulted in the year 387 BC being selected for the 21 tribes increasing from 12 years per tribe to 18 years per tribe. The additional four tribes that were simultaneously created at the same time, as will be explained in detail for the year 387 BC, was undertaking solely because the Romans wanted to produce more legions and larger legions.

By bungling the additional four tribes with the Pythagorean 126 years in 387 BC meant 72 years were deducted from the 630 years for the creation of the 35 tribes. With the 35 tribes now reduced to 558 years, and when divided by 35 tribes, each tribe now represented 15 years and 9 months, and two tribes, 31 years and 8 months. Therefore, the remaining 10 tribes would be created on the following time line:

      Theoretical           Actual
26th and 27th tribes   355 BC   357 BC
28th and 29th tribes   323 BC   333 BC
30th and 31st tribes   291 BC   318 BC
32nd and 33rd tribes   259 BC   299 BC
34th and 35th tribes   228 BC   241 BC

As will be shown in detail for the year 299 BC, the creation of the 32nd and 34th tribes were purely a military undertaking, due to Rome having to conquer Italy before Rome's period of Youth expired, which was fast approaching. The year 298 BC also herald the start of the Third Samnite War (298 BC to 290 BC), and for this the Romans needed more legions so as to conquer the Samnites and the rest of Southern Italy.

It appears the creation of the 34th and 35th tribes in 241 BC were due to the Roman priesthood hoping to create the 34th and 35th tribe in 249 BC, which should have been the year when the 32nd and 33rd tribes should have been created in accordance with the original Pythagorean timetable. However, as the Romans were at this time fighting the Carthaginian Empire (264 BC to 241 BC), the creation of the 34th and 35th tribes had to be delayed until the defeat of Carthage in 241 BC. It would appear that to arrive at the year 249 BC for the completion of the creation of the 35 tribes was due to the Roman priesthood incorrectly adding a Pythagorean tone of 126 years to Rome's founding date of 753 BC, thereby producing the year 879 BC, and when the 630 years for the creation of the 35 tribes was deducted from 879 BC, this leaves the year 249 BC. This confusion has most likely come about by the Roman priesthood adding a Pythagorean tone of 126 years, believing it represented Rome's period of conception to the time frame of Rome's Life of a Man, which omits Rome's period of conception, and by doing so, increasing the time frame to 1,260 years, as per the original Pythagorean design. The next time this same mistake would occur was during the reign of the emperor Diocletian (284 AD to 305 AD).

Endnotes
1 Dionysius (7 64 6), Livy (2 21), Livy (Periochae 2)
1 Livy (1 7 1)