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
Tammuz (Babylonian calendar) Tammuz (Babylonian calendar) Tammuz was a month in the Babylonian calendar, named for one of the main Babylonian gods, Tammuz (Sumerian: "Dumuzid", "son of life"). Many different calendar systems have since adopted Tammuz to refer to a month in the summer season. In the Hebrew calendar, Tammuz is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a summer month of 29 days. Tammuz is also the name for the month of July in the Gregorian calendar in Arabic (تموز), Syriac ("ܬܡܘܙ") and Turkish ("Temmuz"). The festival for