Russell Brand poses with his new book on Twitter
His book is about Christianity and and Brand poses with the book in a way to intentionally show the two covers, which includes a fly -- a symbol for Baal. In her scholarly article ‘Mahmoud Darwish and Tanure Ojaide: Poets of Exilic Consciousness and Representatives of Oppressed Nations’, Ghada Mohammad explains that the stag was regarded a symbol for deities such as Tammuz, Baal, Adonis, and Attis, thereby situating the animal within a broad tradition of dying–n–rising god archetypes like Christ. Baal was known as “Lord”, which is another title for Saturn and Christ.
Christ is Baal or Saturn. There are some correlations and divergences between Christ and Saturn. One such correlation is the fact that in ancient times the Romans celebrated Saturn with a festival called Saturnalia in late December which is what we still do today — but the celebration of Christ has now taken the place of Saturn. In his 1896 book ‘The Messiah-ideal’, the American author Maurice Fluegel highlights that December 25th, originally associated with festivals like Saturnalia and the birth of deities like Apollo and Horus, was later adopted as the birthday of Jesus. He argues that Saturn’s relationship to Jesus is one of symbolic substitution, where Christian practices replaced pagan traditions, with Jesus taking the place of deities like Saturn in religious celebrations such as those on December 25th. One could interpret the modern Jesus as a repackaged version of deities like Horus, Osiris, Mithra, Apollo, or Saturn.
Posted Apr 9, 2026, 9:17 PM UTC