Manimal — Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura

Science has made major breakthroughs in drug research and transplant technology by experimenting on “chimeras” – human/animal embryo hybrids. But these seemingly noble goals may be covering up a much more nefarious purpose – to create half human, half ape super soldiers, paving the way for a real life Planet of the Apes showdown.

Jesse and his team storm the Yerkes Primate Research Center, hidden in the backwoods of Georgia, to find out the truth about “humanzees” – who may already be walking the earth!

Manimal reference in Vedas

The Rig Ved contains an epithet that has been attributed to Narasimha. The avatar is described as «like some wild beast, dread, prowling, mountain-roaming» (RV.I 154.2a). There is an allusion to a Namuci story in RV.VIII 14.13: «With waters’ foam you tore off, Indra, the head of Namuci, subduing all contending hosts.» This short reference is believed to have culminated in the full puranic story of Narasimha.

Narasimha (Sanskrit: नरसिंह, Narasiṃha) or Nrusimha (नृसिंह, Nṛsiṃha), also spelled as Narasingh, Narsingh and Narasingha, whose name literally translates from Sanskrit as «Man-lion», is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu and one of Hinduism’s most popular deities, as evidenced in early epics, iconography, and temple and festival worship for over a millennium.

Narasimha is often visualized as half-man/half-lion, having a human-like torso and lower body, with a lion-like face and claws.