the whole range of similes is actually used to describe this human substance, that he is a cosmic egg, the cock (in the egg) or the mole (in the earth) or the 'man cursed by the sun.'
Von Franz identifies the mole as one of a cluster of alchemical similes for the prima materia conceived as a hidden Anthropos embedded in the earth, awaiting the transformative opus.
, Psyche and Matter, 2014thesis