Idmen

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{{Infobox album

| name = IDMEN

| type = Studio Album

| artist = Indukti

| cover = Indukti_-_IDMEN.jpg

| alt =

| released = July 24, 2009

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Progressive metal

| length = 63:16

| label = InsideOut Music{{cite web|url=http://www.insideout.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=650&osCsid=a6a0f1ca5af1bc4f9f68805af48c4e35|title=InsideOut Music Release Info|publisher=www.insideout.de|accessdate=2009-11-12}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| producer = Indukti/W.Kozłowski

| prev_title = S.U.S.A.R.

| prev_year = 2004

| next_title =

| next_year =

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Sputnikmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}Elijah A [http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=40639 IDMEN review] Retrieved on 2009-11-13.

|rev2 = USA Progressive Music

|rev2score = {{Rating|10|10}}Antoniu, Eduard [https://archive.today/20120915085955/http://www.usaprogmusic.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_simple_review&Itemid=28&review=360-Indukti-Idmen IDMEN review] Retrieved on 2009-11-12.

}}

IDMEN is the second full-length album by the Polish rock band Indukti.

The album is a metaphorical tale of the human struggle with destiny, faith, daily life, nature, and self. The album's title is taken from the mermaid's song from the twelfth book of Homer's Odyssey and means "we know" or "we've seen":

ἴδμεν γάρ τοι πάνθ' ὅσ' ἐνὶ Τροίῃ εὐρείῃ

Ἀργεῖοι Τρῶές τε θεῶν ἰότητι μόγησαν,

ἴδμεν δ', ὅσσα γένηται ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ.{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0135%3Abook%3D12%3Acard%3D153|title=Homer, Odyssey, Book 12, line 153|accessdate=2015-01-22}}

(For we know all the toils that in wide Troy

the Argives and Trojans endured through the will of the gods,

and we know all things that come to pass upon the fruitful earth.){{cite web|url=http://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerOdyssey12.html|title=Classical E-Text: HOMER, ODYSSEY 12|accessdate=2009-11-13}}

The song Tusan Homichi Tuvota, sung and with lyrics by Nils Frykdahl from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, is based on an old Hopi tale transcribed by Edward A. Kennard and Albert Yava, and published in 1944 by the Education Division of the United States Indian Service.{{cite web|url=http://www.bookfever.com/book_photos/38525.jpg|title=Field Mouse Goes To War|accessdate=2009-11-12|archive-date=2011-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708082908/http://www.bookfever.com/book_photos/38525.jpg|url-status=dead}}

The album cover depicts a painting by Justyn Parafianowicz.