“[The] division of mankind into four successive, primitive races was accepted by the oldest priests of Egypt. They are represented by four figures of different types and skin colors in the paintings of the tomb of Seti I at Thebes. The red race bears the name Rot; the Asiatic race with yellow skin, Amu; the African race with black skin, Halasiu; the Lybico European race with white skin and blond hair, Tamahu.”

—Edouard Schur’, a footnote to The Great Initiates: A Study of the Secret History of Religions, translated from the French by Gloria Rasberry, 1961; citing Lenormant, History of the Peoples of the Orient, Vol. 1.