"Harran" - Harran (Akkad. "crossroads", "road", "fork"; "steppe", "place burnt by the sun") 
"Harran" is a "crossroads", "fork", i.e. a symbol of a turn, a change in the way of life of a certain historical period of man's movement to the knowledge of the Will of One God, the period of his spiritual formation in preparation for the acceptance of the Will of God.
"Harran" is a symbol of the (burned) "desert" consciousness of the peoples in the knowledge of the Will of God.