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At one point in a cutscene in the game [[Tomb Raider Anniversary]], [[Natla]] delivers the following piece of dialogue; "''It cannot be stopped.  The wheels of Kathar are already in motion.  Doom will find you both while I rise from the dust of your bones to finish what I've started...  !''"[http://www.videogames101.net/t8sy.htm]. As a result there has been much fan speculation as to what she is talking about.
 
At one point in a cutscene in the game [[Tomb Raider Anniversary]], [[Natla]] delivers the following piece of dialogue; "''It cannot be stopped.  The wheels of Kathar are already in motion.  Doom will find you both while I rise from the dust of your bones to finish what I've started...  !''"[http://www.videogames101.net/t8sy.htm]. As a result there has been much fan speculation as to what she is talking about.
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A Custom tomb raider game was made on Tomb raider Level Editor entitled "The Wheels of Kathar" explaining what Natla was referring to in Anniversary, The Game Has its own plot and is heavily inspired by Underworld. Although the storyline  is fairly inaccurate and inexplained there arequite a thew hours of enjoyable gameplay. The levels include:
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*[[Niflheim: Sea]].
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*[[Niflheim: Hall of Dispair]].
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*[[Niflheim: Yggdrasil]].
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*[[Croft Manor: Infiltration]].
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*[[Croft Manor: Escape]].
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*[[Helheim: Tomb of Hel]].
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*[[Kathar]].
  
 
Possible clues to the meaning could be;
 
Possible clues to the meaning could be;
 
*Kathar, the place, could be  a town in Burma/Myanmar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathar] or a village in Nepal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathar,_Nepal].  
 
*Kathar, the place, could be  a town in Burma/Myanmar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathar] or a village in Nepal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathar,_Nepal].  
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*On the other hand the word "Kathar" could be a "Hollywood archaic" mis-spelling of "Cathar", an extinct Christian religious sect popular in American media and literature [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathar].  
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*On the other hand the word "Kathar" could refer to the  "Cathar", an extinct Christian religious sect[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathar]. The most popular theory is that the word Cathar most likely originated from the Greek καθαροί, meaning "pure ones", a term related to the word "catharsis", meaning "purification".
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*The reference to "Wheels" may have something to do with either Mayan concepts of time [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_calender#Maya_concepts_of_time], Christian eschatology [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Ages_of_the_World] or Tibetan [[Prayer Wheels|prayer wheels]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel].  
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*The reference to "Wheels" may have something to do with either Maya concepts of time [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calender#Maya_concepts_of_time], Christian eschatology [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Ages_of_the_World] or Tibetan [[Prayer Wheels|prayer wheels]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel].
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*The phrase "Wheels of Kathar" probably originated from a "monomyth" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth] concept cobbled together after superficial research to try and bridge the unrelated plots of [[Legend]] and [[Anniversary]] (and possibly [[Underworld]], which may have been in pre-production at the time), and was probably chosen because it sounded "historical/mythological" to an teenage American audience.
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However in the absence of further information, the meaning and significance of the phrase "Wheels of Kathar" will probably remain forever obscure.
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''(Editor's note; all article references are from Wikipedia as this is the most likely source for the original research.)''
 

Latest revision as of 19:23, 3 April 2018

At one point in a cutscene in the game Tomb Raider Anniversary, Natla delivers the following piece of dialogue; "It cannot be stopped. The wheels of Kathar are already in motion. Doom will find you both while I rise from the dust of your bones to finish what I've started...  !"[1]. As a result there has been much fan speculation as to what she is talking about.

A Custom tomb raider game was made on Tomb raider Level Editor entitled "The Wheels of Kathar" explaining what Natla was referring to in Anniversary, The Game Has its own plot and is heavily inspired by Underworld. Although the storyline is fairly inaccurate and inexplained there arequite a thew hours of enjoyable gameplay. The levels include:

Possible clues to the meaning could be;

  • Kathar, the place, could be a town in Burma/Myanmar [2] or a village in Nepal [3].
  • On the other hand the word "Kathar" could refer to the "Cathar", an extinct Christian religious sect[4]. The most popular theory is that the word Cathar most likely originated from the Greek καθαροί, meaning "pure ones", a term related to the word "catharsis", meaning "purification".
  • The reference to "Wheels" may have something to do with either Maya concepts of time [5], Christian eschatology [6] or Tibetan prayer wheels [7].

However in the absence of further information, the meaning and significance of the phrase "Wheels of Kathar" will probably remain forever obscure.

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