Topic summary
大神
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Ōkami.
Naming and allusions
The title of the game is a pun; the word ōkami (狼) in Japanese means "wolf". The kanji characters(大神), pronounced identically, mean "great deity", so the main character is a great wolf deity. Although pronounced differently, the same characters (大神) are used in the honorific name of the Shinto sun goddess Amaterasu (天照大神, Amaterasu-ōmikami).