As Lord of Cattle (Pashupata), he is the benevolent herdsman—or, occasionally, the merciless slaughterer of the “beasts” which might be the human souls in his treatment. Though a few of the combos of roles may very well be spelled out by Shiva’s identification with earlier mythological figures, they come https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jkGrywMWdQ