Hora, plural Hore (same reading as Greek Horae), is the name of an ancient circular dance, which survived up to now days in Romania. In the ancient times, naked women danced it. In Romania three clay depictions were found of this dance, two of them having five dancers and one with six dancers. The last one, which is the most famous, was found at Bodesti-Frumusica, in Moldavia. All of them are dating from 4000–3000 BC. The word şchioapă means limping and this dance is a great example of very old Hore.

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