The Wheels of Kathar

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 be a "Hollywood archaic" mis-spelling of "Cathar", an extinct Christian religious sect popular in American media and literature [4].
• The reference to "Wheels" may have something to do with either Mayan concepts of time [5], Christian eschatology [6] or Tibetan prayer wheels [7].
• The phrase "Wheels of Kathar" probably originated from a "monomyth" [8] 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.

(Editor's note; all article references are from Wikipedia as this is the most likely source for the original research.)