June 25 - Azathoth

Outside the ordered universe [is] that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.

~ HP Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Here is another one I'm going to cross off the bucket list.  I've wanted to build Azathoth for a while and the ideas presented in the Balloon Brother's Geo Dome 2 tutorials I felt were a good fit for what I had in mind.

Azathoth is the creator diety of the elder gods, not the progenitor, all of reality is a manifestation of its dreams and if were ever to awaken, everything is immediately erased from all of existence.  

So metal.  \m/

(view other gods)

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Other balloon designs or inspiration from the Balloon Brothers:

March 11 - Vengeance of Daedalus

His eyes are ablaze,
See the madman in his gaze.
Fly, on your way, like an eagle,
Fly as high as the sun,
On your way, like an eagle,
Fly and touch the sun.

~ Iron Maiden Flight of Icarus

No father should ever experience the anguish that Daedalus felt when Icarus fell into the ocean, so great was his grief that the goddess Athena took pity and granted him the wings of a god.

The Chronicle of Orphestus contains one of the few records of what happened next:

Lo, Daedalus did take to the skies with fist and fury of vengeance.  Past Great Olympus and soaring to heights unforeseen, for great and ferocious was his resentment of that celestial oppressor.  God wings do not burn and to this day the sun is forced to flee to the west every day to escape a father's wrath.

The idea for this balloon occurred when I was listening to the song Flight of Icarus and imagining how grief stricken Daedalus would be.