Akan calendar each Akan year tends to be the various yam festivals celebrated around August or September. The lunar cycle and 28-day month are not carefully observed, except by the coastal Akan who are interested in tides as they affect fishing. Still, the month is known as "bosome". It consists of 28 days rather than the 30 or 31 days of the Gregorian calendar. Three "bosome" make two Adaduanan. Since the arrival of Swiss missionaries from Basel in the early nineteenth century, Christian Akan scholars have tended to 'Akanize' the Roman calendar rather than observe, analyse and explain the Akan calendar based
Magha (month) usually the eleventh month of the year. Magha (month) Maagha (Nepali: माघ "maagh") is a month of the Hindu calendar. In Nepal's national civil calendar, Maagh is the tenth month of the year, and in the Gregorian calendar it corresponds with January/February. In lunar calendars, Maagh may begin on either the new moon or the full moon around the same time of year, and is usually the tenth month of the year. It is named thus because in this month, the full moon is usually found nearby or within the star cluster called "Magha". In solar calendars, Maagh begins with