YAMA

Lord of the Underworld, our first father and the angel of our death. Yama is the Hindu equivalent of Pluto, the guardian of Hell. But along with the dreaded Yama is the even more intimidating Yamataka, Yama's destroyer who is both a bodhisattva and an aspect of Shiva. He is black, has many heads, eyes, legs and arms bearing mystic implements and human skulls. He is engaged in intercourse with a female bodhisattva, a concubine/succubus. Another of his names is VarjaBhairava ("Terrible Lightning") and he is the protective God of the Tibetan temple of Gelugpa.
Yama (Sanskrit: ) is the lord of death in Hinduism, first recorded in the Vedas. Yama belongs to an early stratum of Indo-Iranian theology. In Vedic tradition, Yama was considered to have been the first mortal who died and espied the way to the celestial abodes, and in virtue of precedence he became the ruler of the departed.

Yama is also the lord of justice and is sometimes referred to as Dharma, in reference to his unswerving dedication to maintaining order and adherence to harmony. It is said that he is also one of the wisest of the devas.
Yama is a Lokapla and an Aditya. In art, he is depicted with green or red skin, red clothes, and riding a water buffalo. He holds a loop of rope in his left hand with which he pulls the soul from the corpse. He is the son of Surya (Sun) and twin brother of Yami, or Yamuna, traditionally the first human pair in the Vedas. He was also worshiped as a son of Vivasvat and Saranya. He is one of the Guardians of the directions and represents the south. He is described as reporting to either Vishnu (the maintainer) or Shiva (the destroyer) from the Trimurti (Hinduism's triune Godhead). Three hymns (10, 14, and 135) in the Rig Veda Book 10 are addressed to him. Yama, although one of the most powerful controllers, is still subordinate to the controllers Shiva and Vishnu Yama is called Kala ("time"), while Shiva is called Mahakala ("greater time").

Rudra
Shiva as we know him today shares many features with the Vedic god Rudra[35] and both Shiva and Rudra are viewed as the same personality in a number of Hindu traditions. Rudra, the god of the roaring storm, is usually portrayed in accordance with the element he represents as a fierce, destructive deity. The Sanskrit name Rudra is usually derived from the root rud- which means "to cry, howl."[10][11] According to this etymology, the name Rudra has been translated as "the Roarer".[12] An alternate etymology suggested by Prof. Pischel derives Rudra ("the Red, the Brilliant") from a lost root rud-, "to be red"[13] or "to be ruddy",[14] or according to Grassman, "to shine".[15] Stella Kramrisch notes a different etymology connected with the adjectival form raudra, which means wild, of rudra nature, and translates the name Rudra as "the Wild One" or "the Fierce God".[16]

R. K. Sharma follows this alternate etymology and translates the name as "Terrible" in his glossary for the Shiva Sahasranama.[17] Rudra is called "The Archer" (Sanskrit: arva)[22] and the arrow is an essential attribute of Rudra.[23] This name appears in the Shiva Sahasranama, and R. K. Sharma notes that it is used as a name of Shiva often in later languages.[24] The word is derived from the Sanskrit root arvwhich means "to injure" or "to kill"[25] and Sharma uses that general sense in his interpretive translation of the name arva as "One who can kill the forces of darkness".[26] The names Dhanvin ("Bowman")[27] and Bahasta ("Archer", literally "Armed with arrows in his hands")[28][29] also refer to archery. In other contexts the word rudra can simply mean "the number eleven".[30]