The South African biologist Eugene Marais spent much of his life studying termites, White Ants they're called in SA. They build crazy Gaudi nest and have specialized individual function.
You could also say, so I will that they can be viewed as morphological similar autonomous computational entities. We all are, all life is information processing.
Marais noticed something more which is why he called his book "The Soul of the White Ant." The individual ants were parts of a larger animal, which was composed of them all.
Which was intelligent in a way that none of the individual ants were and which directed their actions. The center of this collective self, was the queen, who was imprisoned and guarded by a termite pretorian guard in a chamber deep under ground. Marais found that if you killed the queen the termitary, the animal died.
The individual parts when on living but they could not longer coordinate their functions.
I have a hunch our pedovore cultist are like this. Each one might control NXVIM style or whatever a termitary with coordinated social function. If that were the case, the pedovore cultist would be helpless if the queens were killed.
This anon doesn't know if it is the case, but the patterns of predation are conserved throughout biology. I guess I'm suggesting these pedovores are actual hive minds. We are not we are something different and that why they eat our young for energy.
Maybe occult anons have something to add.