In Orissa state, there are multitudes of tribal communities residing in every hook and corner of the region. Saora is quite significant and deserves mentioning. Especially in the district of Ganjam , these Saora tribes are found in great numbers. Regarding the origin of these Saora tribes, a myth popular amongst the locales.

In fact numerous anthropologists have traced the mentioning of these Saora tribes even in the great epic of Ramayana. It has been written that Savari, a Saora woman whom Ram and Laxman met while moving about in the Dandaka forests in search of Sita. Just like many of the tribes of the whole of the region, these Saora tribes too have been able to maintain their originality in tact over all these years. Dance, festivals, music, rites and rituala bear the traces of their ancient culture and ethnicity.