Complex sentence: An element more or less resembling a smoking torch is often set in the forehead (see fig.2), an attribute symbolic of lightning that is found with the Tonsured Maize God, as well as with deceased rulers at Palenque and Copan assimilated to this deity.
Split into simpler sentences: An element more or less resembling a smoking torch is often set in the forehead (see fig.2). This attribute symbolic of lightning is found with the Tonsured Maize God, as well as with deceased rulers at Palenque and Copan assimilated to this deity.