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Sumeremilhun Tarot      2002 Emil Kazanlar      Hungary                       Two extra arcana. Number 23 Szanatrug - A Racio and Number 24 Berta - Intuicio.                             Art Medium: Gouache or possibly acrylic. Description: Emil Kazanlar is half Hungarian and half Persian. He lived in Iran until his early 20s before moving to Hungary. He worked in the Hungarian diplomacy, was active in the Hungarian Puppet Theatre as a designer and was a university lecturer at Persian Studies. As a teenager he graduated as a miniaturist painter from the Art Academy of Teheran. He adheres to a theory about the common origins of Sumers, Persians and Hungarians and incorporates this into the imagery of the Sumeremilhun tarot. He uses old Hungarian runic characters on the left side of each card. The cards designs take inspiration from Sumerian bas-reliefs and some Byzantine manuscripts. Kazanlar is, of course, best known for the tarot he produced in 1996 published by AGM Müller.