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Krampus!
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Date: January 14, 2014 01:23PM
who was the first to use that word? Not the mormons because in dates back to the 1770s according to NGRAM viewer.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=telestial&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctelestial%3B%2Cc0Is it a cross between terrestrial and celestial? Was there some other cult from which mormonism borrowed the idea?