Words of Creation

"You need me to translate the Words of Creation."

- John Garrett

The Words of Creation are a series of symbols of seemingly alien origin found inside Todorov Building in Belarus, and later reproduced by John Garrett and Phil Coulson under the effects of the GH.325 drug.

History
After Skye hijacked the eye implant signal, the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Grant Ward completed Akela Amador's infiltration mission given her by HYDRA, using a set of glasses mimicking her eye implant. He found that the target of the infiltration mission inside the Todorov Building was the equation, that was being studied by two men.

After John Garrett was infused with GH.325, he started to display symptoms of insanity. Questioned by Grant Ward, Garrett told him that he was "alive" and "could do anything" while carving the equation on a glass piece inside the Bus with a nail.

Agent Phil Coulson was given the Toolbox by Nick Fury, which led him to the S.H.I.E.L.D. secret facility, the Playground. Later that night, Coulson awakened and began writing the equation on one of the facility walls.

For a month, Coulson had Skye try to decrypt the Words that Garrett had written. She looked into the Rising Tide for help to no avail.

When Isabelle Hartley grabbed the Obelisk, the symbols appeared on the artifact.

Melinda May began to worry about Coulson when, after eighteen days, he had not relieved his need to inscribe the Words. She photographed his carvings as he wrote on a blackboard in his office in the Playground.

When Raina touched the Obelisk on the insistence of Skye's Father, the symbols appeared and glowed.

A fire took place, destroying Santa Maria de las Flores; the only artifact that remained untouched was a 500 year old painting. When the priest showed the painting to a bishop, he flipped it to its back and showed the Words of Creation inscribed there. Gabriel Soto held a fundraiser to rebuild the church and Phil Coulson and Melinda May crashed the party to get the painting, not knowing that Sunil Bakshi, impersonating Glenn Talbot, had already taken the painting to his hotel room. Eventually, Coulson got the painting.

Appearances

 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Eye-Spy
 * T.A.H.I.T.I.
 * Beginning of the End
 * Shadows
 * Heavy is the Head
 * Face My Enemy

Trivia

 * Next to the equation seen in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode Eye-Spy, there are also pieces of Skrull language. In the comics, the Skrull are a shape-shifting race from the Andromeda Galaxy.