AR ATTA, an exquisite wealthy place.

The land of AR-ATTA is described as a fabulously wealthy place full of gold, silver, lapis lazuli, and other precious materials, as well as the artisans to craft them. It was situated in a very remote area and was very difficult to reach. Messengers had to ascend and descend mystical mountains and towns before reaching the place.
In the Biblical records the principal means of identifying its location is the description of the river issuing out of Eden, which thereafter divided into 4 heads producing the rivers named as: the EU-PH-RATES (Hebrew: PE-RATH),  HIDD-EK-EL (TIGRIS), PISH-ON, and  GIH-ON. (Genesis 2; Daniel 10).
The land of AR-ATTA appears to be somewhere near the Head of the Persian Gulf in lower Mesopotamia at the place where the HIDD-EK-EL (TIGRIS) and the EU-PH-RATES draw near together.
Supporting a location of AR-ATTA in the mountainous region of the Mesopotamian plains, is the fact that the Noah's Ark with its crew came to rest on "The Mountains of Ar- Arat." (Gen.8).
Ar-atta was the home of IN-ANNA (Queen of heaven), goddess of Love, War, Fertility, and Lust. Along the Tigris and Euphrates there were many shrines and temples or "Houses of Heaven" dedicated to her and various deities. Sacred prostitution were performed at these temples. Every woman in the land had to go inside the temple once in her entire life and have sexual intercourse with a complete stranger that pick her at random. The women were obliged to lose their virginity for the sake of the goddess. For some of them the waiting period remained for three to four years before being picked because they weren't fair.
The symbolism of this ritual was a form of "sacred marriage" between the king and the high priestess of IN-ANNA (ISHT-AR, for Sumerians, Aphrodite, for Greeks). The words pronounced by the male representative were as follows: "I invite you in the name of In-anna to my dominion and I will please the goddess in everything she wants regardless the sum of money that is involved." Then the goddess as a protector of the king will help the kingdom to increase its power by conquering and subduing other kingdoms making it a dominant force in the whole world.
It is said that the region in the southern part of Mesopotamia on the Head of the Persian Gulf, went through gradual and eventual domestication of grains. From the mountains foothills an extensive irrigation techniques developed, and the area supported a vast variety of edible vegetation. This domestication of grain and its proximity to rivers enabled the region's growth into a vast settlement in both population and land, with relative ease. The power pass from hand to the other symbolizing the meaning of the goddess's name : In-anna, the goddess of war, lust, love and fertility. It is still on and will be until the end of times.