In this study, aesthetic and ontological meaning codes of elements related to nature in mâni, which is one of the shortest but most intense symbolic meanings of Turkish oral poetry tradition, will be examined. Nature is seen as the main area of life and creation in Turkish oral tradition poetry and has functional features. The importance of nature in Turkish culture is related to lifestyle. In Turkish culture, nature, living space, learning, social togetherness and sharing space have multi-layered meanings as a space where healing, religious and psychological meanings are attributed, time is determined, production takes place, and emotions are expressed. While nature has these functions in socio-cultural life, it also has important functions in the symbolic transfer of the emotional world of the individual. In this context, nature has been a guide in the formation of the individual's inner reality and the description and transfer of this reality. The individual, who establishes an interest between nature and his feelings and thoughts, has positioned himself in the world outside himself. Thus, the human being, trying to understand his place in the universe, has continued his life as a part of a meaningful whole by trying to reach the secret of nature outside himself. This interaction with nature has been a source for the expression of inner reality and nature has been the discourse area of cultural creativity dating back centuries. The main purpose of this study will be to determine the motifs related to nature in the selected mani samples based on these multifunctional meaning fields of nature, and to examine the aesthetic and ontological meaning layers of the emotions expressed with these motifs with art aesthetics, ontology, psychoanalytic approach and image analysis. In the study, the question of how nature, which forms the discourse map of cultural memory, shapes the creation process in the oral literature tradition will also be tried to be answered.