Comment on Kiriban - The Wolf and the Fox by Evolvana
"O" is honorific, so "kami" means "god" but "o-kami" means something like "venerable god". I think they played with the words on purpose, because it's a wolf and a god at the same time 
Okay. I know that, depending on which way you write the word, okami also means woman. Anyway, I never thought about it until you mentioned the possible play on the word, but, yes, it could be a wolf god, or god in wolf form. I know the Japanese do love a good pun. One of my favorite anime series is "Urusei Yatsura" and there is a character in there named Sakurambo. I read that if it's spelled with one character it means Cherry, and that's what everyone in the show calls him. If it's written with another character, it means deranged monk, and Sakurambo is a deranged monk. Hilarious.