desperately struggling against the nihilism they cling to desperately. They deny god because he says they need to be in control of their base urges. The world without god is hopeless and without purpose. they make their hope the false promises of technology and their purposes the base urges that got them into this self delusion. So their lives become a self-perpetuating spiral downwards with the only possible respite being when they can pull others into their ideology. The ouroboros is the symbol of the true power of these witches, it's the logic-falacy loop they lock your mind into.