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(New page: 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...)
 
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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 Greek καθαροί (Katharoi), meaning "pure ones", a term related to the word Katharsis or 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 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 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.)''
 

Revision as of 01:09, 12 February 2009

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.

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 Greek καθαροί (Katharoi), meaning "pure ones", a term related to the word Katharsis or Catharsis, meaning "purification".
  • The reference to "Wheels" may have something to do with either Mayan 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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