Mt. Seir seems to have been named after one Seir, who the land of the Horites - "the land of Seir" - was named after (Genesis 14:6). He was the ancestor of the Horite chiefs listed in Genesis 36:20f. The Horites have been identified with references in Egyptian inscriptions to Khar (formerly translated as Harri), which concern a southern region of Canaan. Despite the widespread influence of the Hurrians, a more northern people, these were probably not the same as the Horites.