The problem of a person's perception of himself in the world has always been socially significant. Studies of the history of ideas about space are most significant for our vast Russia. The processes of their formation are associated with both ancient and modern times. The objective of the publication is to analyze the mental modeling of space as a kind of corpora in the traditional culture of the indigenous peoples of Yugra. To achieve it, it is necessary to resolve the following tasks: to consider the aspects of mutual evolution of the images of human corporality and the outside world among the Ob-Ugric peoples of Yugra on the basis of a preliminary reconstruction of the causes of the emergence of corporal representations in antiquity. The methodological basis of the study is an interdisciplinary approach using a number of theoretical provisions of anthropology. According to these provisions, in the processes of anthropogenesis our ancestors were able to adapt to the external environment through corporal imitation to representatives of the animal world. In turn, the naive zoomorphism of man was mentally supplemented by the anthropomorphism of the surrounding world. Ethnographic materials on the traditional culture of the peoples of Yugra testify that the properties of the human body were mentally transferred to the natural world and then to social relations. The transfer was carried out through myths. The obtained results prove the inconsistency and ambiguity of the interaction of corporal images, objects of nature and mythical characters of the Ob-Ugric folklore. We assume that the direction of further research will be related to the consideration of the specifics of the historical and cultural evolution of the images of the social corpora in the humanized space of outlying lands, among which Yugra can be attributed.