Some Creationist literature quite rightly points out that, after the Flood, and after Babel, many different cultures developed as they migrated across the land masses. Memories of the One True God were obscured by Manmade religions and beliefs, and some cultures became isolated and inward-looking as they devolved.
There is always a strong link between loss of truth, (that is, Biblical truth) and degradation of human culture. As Job 30:6 says, the people went "To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks." And their children knew only what their parents taught them.
In this story I imagined a small branch of humans, isolated and deliberately hemmed in by other, more 'modern' and technologically advanced humans. This is how some human societies do exist today in the real world. Those with the education and money can live in a different world, right next to people who barely exist off the land. This is how it has always been. If Mankind doesn't make the effort to raise himself, he always tends to go downhill, towards more primitive lifestyles and ignorance.
The 'Song' which Inigwa (a play on the word enigma) sings is a distorted version of a part of Genesis – and this is how many cultures remember those far off times, in traditional songs and stories. The Flood especially, is a story common to dozens of cultures, but it is always a garbled version compared to the Bible.
"And that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know how that I am the Lord." Exodus 10:2
"One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts." Psalms 145:4
"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty." 2 Peter 1:16
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