Emerald of Khufu

The Emerald of Khufu is a magic amulet used by Queen Deluca from the Aladdin TV series episode "The Great Rift".

History

The emerald was found by Queen Deluca of Mesmaria. It corrupted her heart, turning her evil. Queen Deluca turned King Zahbar into a hawk and then used the emerald to give her brothers their own amulets. The jewel also created great anger inside them which made them fight each other for power. However this caused the creation of the Great Rift which destroyed Mesmaria, but Queen Deluca and her brothers survived by sealing themselves inside a magic chest. For centuries King Zahbar kept searching for his queen.

This went on until Aladdin found the chest and the gems. King Zahbar took the emerald bringing his queen back to life while Aladdin and his friends took the remaining jewels to Agrabah. Once Queen Deluca was revived, she and Zahbar went to Agrabah to get the jewels.

Trivia

• The name Khufu may be a reference to an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom period (26th century BC), named Khufu or Cheops (died c. 2566 BC).
  • The name could also be a possible reference to The Khufu Statuette or the Ivory figurine depicting the ancient Egyptian monarch Khufu.
• It could also be a reference to 'The Khufu ship', an intact full-size solar barque from ancient Egypt that was sealed into a pit alongside the Great Pyramid of pharaoh Khufu around 2500 BC, during the Fourth Dynasty of the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom.
• The name Khufu could also be short for Khufukhaf I who was the son of Khufu and an ancient Egyptian prince and vizier of the 4th Dynasty.
  • Another possibility still is that the emerald's name comes from Khufukhaf II who was an ancient Egyptian high official during the Old Kingdom period. He was the probable son or grandson of Khufukhaf I. More likely was it that he was Khufukhaf I's grandson instead of son as the only known sons of Khufukhaf I were Wetka and Iuenka. Thus, this would make him a son of either Wetka, Iuenka or Khufukhaf I's daughter.
• The emerald's name may also be a reference to Khufu's Wisdom a 1939 first novel by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz.
• One last possible real life influence of the name may be 'Khufu', one of two block ciphers designed by Ralph Merkle in 1989 while working at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.