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[MCU/Agents of Shield] Does Red Skull and contemporary Hydra agents REALLY know why Hydra was founded? If he does why has it never come up?

So after season 3 of Agents of Shield we learn that Hydra was initially started as a sort of cult heralding the return of the first Inhuman to help them take control of the planet. This cult is complete with ritual sacrifices and a lot of borderline superstitious reverence for a single individual. The Red Skull is considered the modern "founder" of Hydra. Did he know of the organization's true origins? If he did why has he not mentioned it or pursued the goal of bringing Hive back to earth? What about other members of the modern Hydra organization: the one computer nazi thing, that one secretary dude in the winter soldier, the one nazi dude from season 2, and all other assorted leaders of Hydra that never mention the organization's founding mythology.
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There was a split in Hydra between the heads whose primary concern was seizing power on earth (Red Skull, Dr Whitehall, Alexander Pierce) and the heads whose primary concern was the religious origins (headed by Malick mostly).  Red Skull is the modern founder of this branch.

The more practical members thought of Malick as an eccentric at best, and a dangerous kook at worst.  Whitehall specifically is contemptuous of the cult on screen in a flashback, trying to convince Gideon Malick to abandon it.

Armin Zola, the computer Nazi, is a bit of a special case.  He was never ideologically committed to Hydra in the way Red Skull or Gideon Malick were.  He was a brilliant scientist with no ethics who used Hydra to gain the resources to pursue his scienteric curiosity, and in turn he was used by Hydra bending that curiosity towards ends that would benefit the organization.