He is strong and tall, muscular. People do not speak in his presence. His symbol is the cross upon a tomb. Ghede controls access to everything in the afterlife. Ghede is also god of eroticism.
Eroticism is beyond good and evil since it is inevitable.
Ghede is neither delighted by eroticism, and certainly not shamed by it. If anything Ghede is amused by the universal presence of eroticism and humans' constant need to pretend that it is other than what it is. When Ghede mounts someone he often singles out people who pretend to be aloof from eroticism. He is especially hard on whites since they often have the puritanical sexual attitudes of western culture. He is the keeper of the cemetery and the primary contact with the dead.