Yafan calendar

The Yafan calendar is a set of calendar systems used originally by the but in modern times has gradually replaced the  for almost all purposes and activities within the nation of South Kesh after the enactment of apartheid and Yafan hegemony in 1986. The calendar mixes elements of, , , as well as in its count, providing for a lot of variation between dates.

The Yafan calendar system is unique in which it does not follow other calendar patterns and customs found in other Austronesian cultures and people groups. The Yafan calendar system was thought to have been invented long before the arrival of the Yafans in the area, in which the Yafans simply adopted the system after settling and possibly taking over the previous peoples that inhabited the region. The continuous maintenance and use of the Yafan calendar even when it was not the official calendar has resulted in overall good maintenance and time-keeping of the three separate cycles of the calendar, being synchronized with past days and dates throughout the existence of the calendar marked by rituals and events which occured only during specific days which match up modern scientific calculation and analysis.

All events and activities in the Yafan culture are heavily based on the calendar. The combination of the three cycles provide for unique combinations in which a date could be blessed, cursed, etc. depending on the alignment of the three calendar cycles. According to Yafan oral tradition, the goddess Suwarnakarni revealed the calendar system 9 great cycles ago to the Yafans in order to keep track of their society and livelihoods.