According to the mayan calendar, 2012 is the year when humanity will witness great changes . These changes it has been assurned will be catastrophic, but mayan sources speak of a transition that will take place to a more spritual way of being . The eye of the gods is a first person accont of an aktun , born to mayan parents in the mayan resion of tikkal , mexico in ad 673 . after the death of his father he is adopted by avenerable high priest who nurturos him to be his succesor and weans him in the ways of the ancient mayas and their special relationship with nature . he teaches him the singnificance of belonging to a priestty class that is duly bound to oversee the activities of governors merchants and this is the substance of this novel which gives us special insights into the cosmology of an ancient people.