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Together they mean to control something by understanding it. E.g. if you understand the True Name of something, you have power over it.

Anatta means to understand that In the Beginning, there were no names. Meaning that there's no such thing as True Naming something.

It's like playing with a fake steering wheel and thinking we're driving. Either we self delude and match our movements to the outside world, or we angrily try to steer away from what we don't like ineffectively.

Believing we can True Name ourselves and that "I" am suffering is a way of amassing suffering into a container. The container feels a victim. This is b/c we 'obviously' have ownership over ourselves and 'should' be in control of ourselves.

Another form of this mistake is believing that you've penetrated to the real essence of something, creating for yourself a prior that is non-updateable by sense data.

Nibbana or nirvana is often interpreted as a state of perpetual bliss but is better translated as "Cooling Down." The opposite of a tense, effortful, clenching up. It is the opposite of Tanha.

The happiness that results from nibbana is due to relinquishing the need to control and arrange reality to match up to our mental projections.

It's like the comfortable silence with a good friend, a good meal eaten to perfect satiation, post-orgasm, etc...