Fasting Across Scriptural Traditions and Metabolic Timescales: A Multimodal Encoding Framework for Fasting-Responsive Genes

Abstract - This document presents an interdisciplinary framework for exploring fasting-responsive genetic pathways through constrained multimodal translation. Building upon previously disclosed dinucleotide-based methodologies for genetic sonification and hue-class visual encoding (Sagar, 2026a; Sagar, 2026b), the present work situates fasting as both a conserved metabolic intervention and a cross-civilizational contemplative practice.A curated panel of fasting-responsive genes associated with metabolic switching, autophagy, mitochondrial remodeling, endocrine regulation, and growth suppression is examined across canonical fasting durations (12–72 hours). Each gene is reduced to information-dense repeating motifs and translated into constrained symbolic outputs, including pitch-class sonification structures and standardized hue-class motif plates.The resulting outputs are not intended as literal biological transcriptions, nor as diagnostic or therapeutic instruments, but as interpretable neuroaesthetic artefacts grounded in genomic structure and metabolic physiology. This thesis is designed for artistic, conceptual, and integrative research use, offering a repeatable framework bridging molecular biology, perceptual representation, and scriptural fasting traditions.